When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart. DAVID E. KELLEY I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got... LYNDON B. JOHNSON I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER When you are caught with a big shot, you don't really feel it. It's like being in a car cras... ANTHONY JOSHUA If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business,... JACKEE HARRY You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES This is a staggering profit and proof that we are being gouged by the oil industry, JAMIE COURT What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious te... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING When waiting for a text from the person you love it feels as though a second is an hour but when you... GERMANGIRL24 You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS As bad as the weather was, it was the aftermath that was so staggering. It's kind of like crawling o... MARK SUDDUTH I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL For all of us, as storytellers, this feels like the year the show should end. Of course, it could ha... JEFF PINKNER It took us by surprise when Martin pulled himself out of it. I can see his point of view. As a young... ERNIE WHITT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference betwee... SCOTT WESTERFELD When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is an... AMBER FREY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin... JAMES DURBIN Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, th... JANE LINDSKOLD I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ... NORAH VINCENT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect o... MARK HADDON You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN This is a market that is still in its infancy, but it has the potential to blossom into a staggering... ALBERT PANG 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. PETER CAREY As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. I... OSCAR WILDE I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO When we share the ball like that, we're a hard team to play. We attacked the basket and when you pla... JOEY MEYER Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER The pressure of life can get so demanding that the brain feels like a crumpled tin can, the demandin... GARY F EVANS... When the water is spraying, it feels like you are in a Star Wars ship speeding through the universe. DENNIS SHAW The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. LEO ROSTEN That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it ... SHARON STONE The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it ... SHARON STONE The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pra... BRYANT MCGILL Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. GEORGE GERSHWIN When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a m... RUSSELL HOBAN Lettice is like a conversation.
It must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you hardly notice the ... FEMALE IMAGINATION Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions.... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern ... WALKER PERCY Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true ... MARCEL PROUST I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it should do, and a part that does... JOHN CANTWELL KILEY Most people are driven by an external pressure to achieve their goals and when the pressure is gone,... SUNDAY ADELAJA It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as ... SAM SHEPARD The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like... JEFFREY KLARIK
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