“The only casting directors who’d be willing to call Tommy in on the basis of this headshot were the ones curious about what it was like to be murdered. I”
― The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
― The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
“Once he’d been set off inside, it mattered so much that he was somehow afraid to show how much it mattered.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of a man who finds himself rising toward what he wants to pull down to himself.”
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“Hubbard mentions an organization he calls SMERSH, a name taken from James Bond novels. Hubbard describes it as a “hidden government …that aspired to world domination!” Psychiatry is the dominating force behind this sinister institution.”
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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