#messed

The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended up laughing. Even when the subject matter was intense or macabre, Henry’s sick and twisted and often politically incorrect sense of humor was infectious…Gloria laughed more in these first weeks at Oxford then she remembered laughing almost anywhere. ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#oxford-messed-up #poetry #van-morrison #family

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#every #example #go #inside #life

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#been #blame #company #course #difficult

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco. ↗

— Gary Cole

#away #did #francisco #high #high school

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up. ↗

— James Harden

#get #gets #going #guys #i

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#i #messed #more #music #myself

Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while. ↗

— Sara Quin

#heartthrob #makeup #messedup #now-im-all-messed-up #sara-quin

My movies are not messed with by the studios. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#movies #studios