Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I’m in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you’ve had, you can still love yourself. Patch Adams Read Quote
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we. Simon Sinek Read Quote
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What’s life without a sense of humor? Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
Literally, FX is like, ‘How can we foster your vision?’ My vision is pretty much taking pictures of the way I see my life. Pamela Adlon Read Quote
Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic – an archetype. Amy Sherald Read Quote
Tropic Thunder’ is one of my favorite movies of all time. ‘Blazing Saddles.’ Anything that will get me to smile. John Cena Read Quote
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read. Carl Sandburg Read Quote
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then… it’s sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that’s fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats. Jonathan Franzen Read Quote
