“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.” Marilyn Monroe

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Aleister Crowley

I quite enjoy magazines and television precisely because they stop me from thinking... must try harder.

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

"I think anyone can do theatre. Even actors. And theatre can be done everywhere. Even in a theatre." Augusto Boal

"Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it".
Goethe

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. --Mitch Hedberg

Scumbag Magnet

Taken from NME: "Blur's Graham Coxon, who plays guitar on Pete Doherty's forthcoming solo album, has spoken about why he chose to hook up with the Babyshambles man and how he got frustrated with him. The guitarist said that the promise he heard in the initial demos for the album convinced him to sign up. He also spoke about Doherty's personal life, calling him a "scumbag magnet"."

The Times, Caitlin Moran

"Along with Doctor Who and Cardigan Bay and flapjacks, this makes me proud to be British. We're utterly wet and a weed. Hurrah! I like the fact that - without ever talking about it - we all decided we didn't, actually, want to survive the Apocalypse. Because, yes, we'd be alive - but in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, full of buff, shouting American survivalists. The British are only into living so long as it's civilised and pleasant. As soon as we have to poo in a hole and lose reception of BBC4, we're quite happy to become extinct. We are not into all this forceful, effortful, yippy, yappy, living-and-winning-at-any-cost stuff. We don't want ripped, renegade leaders, like Gerard Butler in 300, shouting, “Tonight, we dine in Hell!” We want someone who is, ultimately, very good at accounts, shouting, “Tonight, we dine in the dining room!”

And indeed, wanting a slightly anaemic-looking accountant as leader seems to be the watermark of all peaceful, civilised countries...'"

"I was always surprised I made it to 30, I was on a collision course. But once you've made it beyond a certain point, you are faced with two choices: carry on and end up killing yourself, or change your life radically. I chose the latter. Wilderness is born out of being in love, and being in love with life. Of course, people don't want their rock stars to be clean-cut and happy; they want them to be unhinged, decadent and desperate. But I believe there is another side of life - a positive side - that I can write about with just as much passion and intensity."
Brett Anderson

Quote

"I'm creating rituals to make sense of a world that scares the shit out of me." Philip Ridley

Quote

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night."
Philip K. Dick

Quote

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy."
Robert Anthony

Quote

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." Marilyn Monroe