The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful
Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
I want you here with me To guide me, hold me, and love me now
lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people. . . It's the root of all the problems.
Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting to other people's remarks, as if acting were merely a matter of adhering to the seven-second delay rule. Jack Nicholson has made a career out of doing this sort of thing, as did Paul Newman, as did Marlon Brando (who the other two learned it from), but they didn't do it all the time and they were more fun to look at. . . Lars And The Real Girl joins a number of other recent films in the category of motion pictures where the director doesn't know that his protagonist is unsympathetic.
FACULTY PSYCHOLOGY is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly , the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.