Currently ‘audibook reading’
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 📚

“There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.”
—David Mamet

Mamet was asked about this quote in The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors (by Mark Rubenstein) excerpt on google books

MARK: You once said, “There’s no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.” What did you mean?
MAMET: It’s not true. You know, you can practice forever, but you’re not going to throw a fastball like Sandy Koufax did.

Innate ability exists. Luck is real. Hard work doesn’t always pay off.
You play the hand you’re dealt. Now go make stuff.

“Every time I make a film... first time you look through the viewfinder at something, you realize the enormity of what you are taking on.”
—Martin Scorsese

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
― Marilyn Monroe

there is something about these kinds of British comedies that fill me with a special joy. They always have such a great mix of characters. More “normal” looking people. Different types mixed together. Seems like so much of the stuff out there is missing this bit of spice.

It’s a kind of diversity, but in, like, a “lower case ’d' diversity” kind of way.

📺 The Curse (2022)

We tell stories because we have a hollow place in our heart. You don’t fill that with success. You fill it by finding yourself in the stories you tell.
—Guillermo del Toro

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
—Leonard Cohen

“The warmth of the sun on my face and the coolness of the rock beneath me remind me that even in the midst of chaos, there is beauty to be found”
-Winnie The Pooh*
Morro Bay, CA

*maybe… It was told to me by a LLM. so, I’m not sure if Winnie The Pooh really said that, I didnt fact check it

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

“Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.”
—Mary Cassatt

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
—Henry David Thoreau

“There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.”
—Mary Shelley

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.”
—Archimedes

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”
—Mahatma Gandhi

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
—Oscar Wilde

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
—Buckminster Fuller

“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
—George Herbert

Lie not: but let thy heart be true to God,
Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both:
Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod;
The stormy working soul spits lies and froth.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
………………………….
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
—George Herbert

Lie not: but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both: Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: …………………………. A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.” —George Herbert

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