#real

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#better person #bringing #coming #feelings #having

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#dreaming #dreams #dreams-quotes #lucid-dreams #mind-control

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#actually #arranging #baskets #crazy #everything

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#chair #mariah #me #put #really

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry. ↗

— Andy Dick

#chris #farley #had #him #hung

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#am #anything #because #dreadful #fiction

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. ↗

— Joan Didion

#crazy #grief #happens #make #people

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#busting #dark #except #i #into

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#alive #artists #duty #era #hand