I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker’s dozens! …they come in thirteens.
It’s either perfect, or it’s the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)
I couldn’t trust my own mind anymore, which wasthe scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.
In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw them¬selves over a cliff.
FYI, it isn’t how I suspected. If you eat enough Cheetos you will NOT actually poop an extra-large Cheeto.
…make sure if you’re working hard at something it’s in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.
Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it’s all just nice intellectual theory.
I’ve always felt like a failure inside if I’m not already a success, if that makes any sense.
…it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, “I’m gonna learn French!” It doesn’t matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?
The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there’s a happy ending.
I’d found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.
But it’s the science of the stars!””She thinks it’s Satanic. You gave her daughter a pentagram.””It’s a natal chart, duh. You can’t let ignorance trump science here, Miss Mary!
…CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.
You can FEEL the wave of emotion online when something is about to go viral, good or bad. A scientist I met once mathematically compared internet behavior to swarm behavior seen in starlings or locusts.
I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical ‘get up and go’ attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That’s my tasty junk food.
Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
Social media is an amazing tool, but it’s really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.