Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.
“Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.”
— James L. Brooks · Agony
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Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.
“Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.”
— James L. Brooks · Agony
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“Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.”
“Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.”
“I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.”
“I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into.”
“Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.”
“You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.”
“If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.”
“Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.”
“Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.”
“Watching other male standups doing anecdotes better than I do is agony.”
“I was really embarrassed. And I asked why they took my picture when I was in such agony, and I'm the girl, in the moment that I was naked, burning, hopeless, crying - so ugly. And I asked why they took my picture at that that moment? I didn't like it at all.”