My boss is a former successful actress turned screenwriter. She has enough interesting opinions to keep me showing up as her assistant everyday. And her gung-ho survivor artist mentality certainly is encouraging. Here's a few from today; the first one really resonates:
"Quote for Life: they’ll always take from the one who’s already crying."
"To learn to survive on your own is to truly love life. because you can’t really live if you’re always under someone’s boot."
"I’ve always wanted to be a gypsy. I wanted to be the woman with the knife in my boot."
"I could see myself dressing up, doing every fucking thing I knew, to guarantee that I was not at the bottom of the pile."
"Almost all writing is pornography. jerk off, get you through it, haha, got your money. And they know damn well that’s what they’re doing."
"To truly write is to be insane. It's a crapshoot. A shot in the dark. And you have to go to bed every night with the world running through your head."