#wood

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#hollywood #instead #observation #place #under

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#hollywood #many #pictures #shoot #too

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck. ↗

— James Wolcott

#circle #crashes #creative #deck #hairspray

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood. ↗

— Fay Wray

#intelligence #lot #strength

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved. ↗

— Anne Rice

#aunt #blackwood #book #farm #lestat

Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today) ↗

— Manny Pacheco

#film #forgotten-hollywood #manny-pacheco #motion-pictures #movies

Prior to the Industrial Age and during the long Agri-cultural Age life was a matter of survival and the concept of 'happiness' was superfluous, but with the industrial age came 'leisure time' and thus happiness was something one had 'time' to pursue". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #age

I Love You in that Big, Over the Edge, Deep Dark Way. ↗

— Amanda Woodward

#melrose-place #love

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they’re full of bicycle trails. And this is happening to the world, and I think it is very very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state, but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world did not have to be beautiful to work. But it is. What does that mean? [from 'A Thousand Mornings' With Poet Mary Oliver for NPR Books] ↗

— Mary Oliver

#nature #woods #beauty

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to? ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#enchanted #love #marriage #sunday-woodcutter #love