Re: how to get published and the movies

Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:00:56 -0700 (PDT) 

> When I was an undergrad, I fancied myself a writer. 
> I used to
> congratulate myself late at night, after all the
> substance abuse and
> window breaking and frat boy taunting, by stumbling
> out onto my roof
> in the predawn Texas heat with my Herter Norton
> translation of Rilke's
> letters to Franz Kappus.  "*Must* I write?", I would
> read silently to
> myself.  "Yes, I must, yes!".  

Yeah, I feel like I have to write sometimes. My mom
said that when I was in the second grade, I wrote some
1 or 2 page story about a caterpillar or something and
that she thought I was going to be a writer. But, I
don't think writing has to always be so down and
depressing. 

Mr. Salinger hates movies because they're phony, which
I agree they are, but a movie is supposed to be an
escape. There are good and bad films as there are good
and bad movies, at least I feel so. And there are even
some films that can seem so powerful in one way or
another. I have listed a whole bunch of quotes that I
really like. There's stuff from writers, musicians,
film makers, and people I don't even know that well.
If you like quotes and want to joing a yahoo club to
post and read other quotes, come to:

quotesfromallwalksoflife
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/quotesfromallwalksoflife

"I never wanted anything but this
i worked hard, tried hard
i ran around in domestic bliss
i fought hard, died hard
every time you're running out of here
every time you're running get the fear

i'm not a vegetable
i will not control myself
i spit on the hand that feeds me
i will not control myself

i never wanted any broken bones
scarred face, no home
you words surround me and i asphyxiate
and i burn all hate
every time you're running out on me
every time you're running i can see

the waters break, the waters run all over me
the waters break, the waters run
and this time your gonna pay"
-Radiohead "Vegetable"


"please forget the words that i just blurted out
it wasn't me it was my strange and creeping doubt
it keeps rattling my cage
and there's nothing in this world
will keep it down.
i can't
so many things that keep, that keep me underground
so many words that i, that i can never find
if you give up on me now
i'll be gutted like i've never been before
even though i might, even thought i try
i can't
if you give up on me now i'll be gutted like i've
never been before.
even though i might, even though i try
i can't"
-Radiohead "I Can't)

". . . savor words and language. No matter what
anybody tells you. . . words and ideas can change the
world."  -Robin Williams Dead poet's Society


"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the
majority, it is time to pause and reflect. "
Mark Twain 


"There is a certain combination of anarchy and
discipline in the way I work." -Robert De Niro


"I am a kind of paranoic in reverse. I suspect people
of trying to make me happy." -J.D. Salinger


"My entire life has been a struggle to resist the dark
force." -William S. Burroughs


"A writer is a controlled schizophrenic." -Edward
Albee


"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any
difference." -Jack Kerouac


"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet
no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a
wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the
way." -Vincent Van Gogh


"The addict in Tupac is dead. The excuse maker in
Tupac is dead. The vengeful Tupac is dead. The Tupac
that would stand by and let dishonorable things happen
is dead. God let me live for me to do something
 extremely extraordinary, and that's what I have to
do." -Tupac Shakur


"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."
-Miles Davis


"The main thing a musician would like to do is to give
a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things
he knows of and senses in the universe." -John
Coltrane


"Take what you can use and let the rest go by." -Ken
Kesey


"If I had to say something, it would be 'Lighten up.
Be cool.' There's just so many buffoons out there."
Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys


"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large
intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men
must, I think, have great sadness on Earth."  -Fyodor
Dostoyevsky 


"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds
you that you have one." -Stella Adler 


"I find that a great part of the information I have
was acquired by looking up something and finding
something else on the way." -Franklin P. Adams 


"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. "
-Woody Allen 


"Language is a virus from outer space. "
-William S. Burroughs 


"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the
night. It is the
breath of a buffalo in
the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs
across the grass and
loses itself
in the sunset. "
-Crowfoot (Blackfoot warior and orator) 

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