#woo

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#books #capture #characters #hollywood #i

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear. ↗

— David Copperfield

#board #bought #disappear #first #i

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. ↗

— John Corbett

#being #different #done #fat #good

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#drumming #fleetwood #half #i #looked

I don't think about Hollywood at all. ↗

— Alex Cox

#hollywood #i #think

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#divorce #family #having #hollywood #i

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#along #big #books #came #century

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#business #cruel #family #get #hollywood

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge. ↗

— Dick Dale

#gauge #philosophy #smallest #sound #string

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#before #begun #did #enough #folk