#wood

It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together. No. We're in Hollywood trying to be competitive, and get numbers, have our eyes on the Nielsens and things like that. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#disingenuous #everything #eyes #get #hollywood

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#believed #cast #confident #did #enough

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#fashioned #made #man #nothing #straight

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#being #girl #hollywood #i #i am

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#escaping #go #hollywood #moviemaking #movies

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#break #hard #hollywood #last #saw

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#came #could #deliberately #die #discover

Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and that I couldn't accept money on top of everything else, but he refused to take it back. "It's not money," he said, "it's my feelings. Don't think about it too much, just take it." All I could do was thank him and accept the money. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#norwegian-wood #food

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#food #harlan #hunger #starve #woods

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#because #being #bluegrass #deep #else