#wood

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#friends #hollywood #our #pay #respect

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that? ↗

— Marc Singer

#crew #doing #drill #fire #heated

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#american #born #father #greek #hollywood

to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poem #poetry #life

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. ↗

— Les Paul

#bartender #beautiful #good #had #his

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ↗

— Athenaeus

#best #burn #drink #friends #old

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films. ↗

— Parker Posey

#films #hollywood #hollywood films #i #parts

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#hollywood #kind #place #temporary

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth. ↗