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“Johnny Fontane: [discussing his problems] I don't know what to do, Godfather. My voice is weak, it's weak. Anyway, if I had this part in the picture, it puts me right back on top, you know. But this... this man out there. He won't give it to me, the head of the studio.

Don Corleone: What's his name?

Johnny Fontane: Woltz. He said there's no chance, no chance... [Meanwhile, Hagen finds Sonny and summons him] A month ago he bought the rights to this book, a best seller. The main character is a guy just like me. I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do... [All of a sudden, Don Corleone rises from his chair and gives Fontane a savage shake]

Don Corleone: YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN! [gives a quick slap to Fontane] What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, a Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman? 'Oh, what do I do? What do I do?' What is that nonsense? Ridiculous! [the Don's unexpected mimicry makes Hagen and even Fontane laugh; around this time Sonny comes in]  Tell me, do you spend time with your family?

Johnny Fontane: Sure I do.

Don Corleone: Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. [gives a quick look at Sonny and affectionately embraces Fontane] You look terrible. I want you to eat, I want you to rest well. And a month from now this Hollywood big shot's gonna give you what you want.

Johnny Fontane: Too late. They start shooting in a week.

Don Corleone: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. Okay? I want you to leave it all to me. Go on, go back to the party. [a gratified Fontane leaves]”
— Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather
Tagged: Weakness, family man, Hollywood
“Time is a myth.”
— Kanye West, Confused By Kanye At The Trump White House? Here’s Your Definitive Analysis
Tagged: Time
“Got something on me like it's voodoo.”
— Lil Baby, Close Friends(Lil Baby & Gunna)
Tagged: Cursed, Curse
“That’s one thing, I’ve never stepped into a situation where I didn’t make more money.”
— Kanye West, Kanye West in the Oval Office with President Trump
Tagged: Money, Making Money
“Let’s stop worrying about the future; all we have is today.”
— Kanye West, Kanye West in the Oval Office with President Trump
Tagged: Time, Focus On Now, The Power of Now, Future
“Mix curriculums, you play basketball while doing math.”
— Kanye West, Kanye West in the Oval Office with President Trump
Tagged: Education, ADD, Making Things Happen
“School is boring.”
— Kanye West, Kanye West in the Oval Office with President Trump
Tagged: Education
“You can always tell ambitious women by the shape of our heads: they're flat on top for being patted patronizingly.”
— Dame Stephanie Shirley, Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
Tagged: Women, Ambition, Patronizing, Tech
“You wait for the right moment, and it will come to you. You need confidence that you will get an idea. And I have confidence because I have been writing for almost 40 years, and I know how to do it.”
— Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami on the Writing Life, His Fantastical New Novel and the Joys of the Mundane
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer
“The desire to buy more books than you can physically read in one human lifetime is actually so universal, there’s a specific word for it: tsundoku. Defined as the stockpiling of books that will never be consumed, the term is a Japanese portmanteau of sorts, combining the words “tsunde” (meaning “to stack things”), “oku” (meaning “to leave for a while”) and “doku” (meaning “to read”).”
— Katherine Brooks, There's A Japanese Word For People Who Buy Too Many Books
Tagged: Books, bibliophilia, Tsundoku
“There seems to be this idea, underlined by shows like Will & Grace and other early aughts media, that straight women are innate allies to gay men.”
— Philip Ellis, Just Because I’m Gay Doesn’t Mean I Want to Be Your Sidekick
Tagged: LGBTQ+, Identity
“We talk a lot about gender identity as something innate, unchosen. And it’s true — you don’t choose to feel this way. But there’s something lost in that discussion.”
— Matt Lubchansky, Wearing Lipstick Was the Scariest Part of Saying Good-bye to My Male Identity
Tagged: LGBTQ+, Identity & Self
“I think spirits might be attracted to me.”
— Troy Vance, An Ohio Teen Says He Took a Photo of a Ghost Boy in His Truck
Tagged: Ghosts, spirits
“The unconscious, that tricky beast, is difficult to access, and dreams (said Jung) give us some access to that underground part of ourselves.”
— Meghan Nesmith, The Science Behind Why Your Dreams Are So Weird- Man Repeller
Tagged: Dreams, What Do Dreams Mean, Dream Meanings, Science, Psychology
“I am so tired of this constant parade of pain.”
— Alexandra Petri, Opinion | It is very difficult to get the train to stop
Tagged: Trauma, Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh, #metoo, #TimesUp, Sexual Assault, Pain
“In other words, you start to doubt yourself: 'Do I have all this because I earned it, or because I’m good-looking?'”
— Tracy Moore, What It’s Like to Be a Really, Really, Really Ridiculously Good-Looking Man
Tagged: Good-Looking People, Attractiveness, Personal Appearance, looks, Self-Worth, Self-Image
“I am glad that the internet exists for that reason: for visibility and for crushing on people we finally get to know might return the feeling.”
— Rhea Butcher, Rhea Butcher Opens Up About Their Personal Journey, Softball, and Queer Loneliness
Tagged: Queer, LGBT+, crushes, Queer Crushes, Representation
“By imagining that they are threatened, men like Kavanaugh have found the motivation to demonstrate, at great cost to the rest of us, that they are still the ones that have the ability to threaten others.”
— Jia Tolentino, One Year of #MeToo: What Women’s Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do
Tagged: #metoo, Kavanaugh, Women's Rights, Women's Speech, feminism
“You can't always lift someone up out of the mud. You actually just end up getting pulled down too.”
— Hannah Hart, DOES THIS MAKE ME GAY? w/ Hannah Hart| DBM #45
Tagged: Love, Depression, Loving Someone With Depression, Mental Health
“I obsessed over it so much that I started avoiding mirrors altogether. I felt like a shell of my once-confident, carefree self.”
— Kaleigh Fasanella, Losing My Hair Made My Confidence Drop. Cutting It Off Restored It
Tagged: Appearance, hair, beauty, Hair loss, Self-Image
“If I accept that all of this is subject to change, how can I know what’s valid? What’s true and what’s not? What’s me and what isn’t?”
— Harling Ross, How Can I Know Myself If I'm Constantly Changing?
Tagged: Identity
“Be who you are now. Be disappointing and cold and solitary if that’s who you are. It’s not a moral failure to be less than perfect, less than warm, less than social.”
— Heather Havrilesky, ‘Everything I Do Is Wrong’
Tagged: Identity, Womanhood
“You want to die, kid? You are in the right place.”
— John Fitzgerald, The Revenant
Tagged: Death Threats
“They don’t hear your voice! They just see the color of your face.”
— Hugh Glass, The Revenant
Tagged: racism, skin color
“Revenge is in God’s hands, not mine.”
— Hugh Glass, The Revenant
Tagged: Revenge, God
“The good lord got us on a road whether we choose it or not.”
— John Fitzgerald, The Revenant
Tagged: Lord, Path, Predestination
“I ain’t afraid to die anymore. I’ve done it already.”
— Hugh Glass, The Revenant
Tagged: Fear Of Death
“As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe…keep breathing.”
— Hugh Glass, The Revenant
Tagged: Fight, breathe, Persistence
“It’s not real. If people were really hurt we’d be shut down. It’s smoke and mirrors.”
— Russ McKamey, Inside 'world's scariest' haunted house where 'people forced to eat own vomit'
“He’s afraid. He knows how far I came for him.”
— Hugh Glass, The Revenant
Tagged: Fear

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