#you

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it. ↗

— Carly Simon

#inspiring #look #tell #until #usually

You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. ↗

— Carly Simon

#had #i #lucky #overweight #sure

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. ↗

— David Simon

#anger #behalf #deserving #empathy #good

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

#achieving #audience #go #gone #i

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#delivers #first #rules #science #secret

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. ↗

— David Simon

#flattering #gratifying #personally #told #very

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. ↗

— David Simon

#make #only #reason #story #wants

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. ↗

— David Simon

#does #feel #i #i think #life

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. ↗

— Neil Simon

#care #couples #every #feel #happy