“I will refrain from telling you to take the tragedies any more seriously than the comedies. In fact, one might argue that comedy must be deadly serious to the characters, or it is not funny for the audience.
“Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently, like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.”
― Beautiful Ugly
― Beautiful Ugly
“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person.”
― Beautiful Ugly
― Beautiful Ugly
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