February 2012
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Josh and Lou
“Rough day?”
“Typical.”
“You love it, you live for it, you were born to do it, I’m the same way. Everybody tells me to get a life, although I don’t know why.. I find life to be terribly overrated. It’s actually quite boring when it’s not disappointing. Say what you will about what we do, but boring it is not.”
January 2012
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What’s the biggest challenge of the creative...
“The desire to do something really wonderful, and the worry that it’s really awful—and how to rebound from those two situations. I think the most difficult thing is looking at your work and understanding what to edit, and what not to do. I mean there are a million decisions you have to make, and I guess, in the end, one hopes to not be boring. That would horrify me until the end of...
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Bartlet for America.
Leo: Mr. President.
Bartlet: A morphine drip, and we can skip the formalities. I might get one myself… wheel it into meetings with the joint chiefs. You’re not fired, Leo. You can delegate, work part-time. Bring the morphine with you for all I care.
Leo: You… You remember… what you told me… when you offered me the job?
Bartlet: “I need you to jump off a...
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December 2011
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Life peg: Emersonmade
“But life for me, well, it has been about moments enhanced by clothing, music, and furniture. Great art of just about any kind. Crocodile stilettos. The Firebird ballet. I don’t seem to care for the names of who signed what treaty but I do want the specifics of exactly what they were wearing and why. And if it looks good it goes straight into Relevant. Now in fairness you could say there...
November 2011
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“I firmly believe that our thoughts have the power to become things. My thoughts...”
– Lindsay Emery
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Life on Mars
Joe: I know that when life expectancy goes up, that’s not victimizing undertakers.
CJ: Well argued, though I do hate you and everything you stand for.
Joe: Claudia Jean, you’ve only known me for four minutes. Usually it takes people the better part of an hour to hate me and everything I stand for.
CJ: I’m the Press Secretary, boo-boo. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Before Sunset
Jesse: Oh, God, why didn’t we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn’t we do that?
Celine: Because we were young and stupid.
Jesse: Do you think we still are?
Celine: I guess when you’re young, you just believe there’ll be many people with whom you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.
October 2011
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Molly Wizenberg is my hero.
She writes:
We’ve been talking about a feeling that sometimes comes with plane or train travel, and maybe the best name for it is Bonus Time. You’re in the plane or the train, and you can see the world outside the window, and you’re hurtling through it, but it’s very far away, impossible to reach. Inside, your movements are limited, but time feels oddly expansive, as though you’re getting an...
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Fireworks, Salvador Bernal
In China and everywhere today, People make as much noise about a coming year, Maybe to drive away those spirits Making them poor, sick, And their loved ones dead—
As if the endless flaring flowers of fire In the midnight sky Were not a beacon for the spirits To always find their way back Seated on the four corners of the dark.
Rest in peace, Sir. I learned so much from you. And in a strange,...
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The West Wing 3x12: The Two Bartlets
C.J.: Duchamp is the father of Dadaism.
TOBY: I know.
C.J.: The dada of Dada.
TOBY: It’s like there’s nothing you can do about that joke. It’s coming, and you just have to stand there.
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“I will say that as a general rule, I am a firm believer that there needs to be...”
– Jenny Rosentrach
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September 2011
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August 2011
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How To Find Time, by Anne Lamott →
“They look at me bitterly now—they don’t think I understand. But I do—I know how addictive busyness and mania are. But I ask them whether, if their children grow up to become adults who spend this one precious life in a spin of multitasking, stress, and achievement, and then work out four times a week, will they be pleased that their kids also pursued this kind of whirlwind life?
If not,...
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“You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for...”
– Steve Jobs, commenting on a programmer’s incomplete work