I came here looking for something
I couldn't find anywhere else.
Hey, I'm not trying to be nobody,
Just want a chance to be myself.
I've done a thousand miles of thumbin',
I've worn holes in both my heels
Trying to find me something better
Here on the streets of Bakersfield.
Homer Joy, Streets of Bakersfield (in memory of Buck Owens)
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Julie’s vision manages to be both escapist and necessary, both personally familiar and yet completely foreign, both deeply emotional and yet almost surgically clean. Literally scary characters who must be stopped before they escape again. The return of Hi! Welcome back from your coma! I think it is good to be greedy in terms of your dreams and in terms of trying to have everything you want out of life. I love being on the edge. Forget bleeding edge, let’s talk hemorrhaging edge, way way out there Clearly, luck is a state of mind. Is it more than that? Lucky people expect good things to happen. The Cold Truth of Film Making: The Heart Without Borders
The bartender says, Hey, Why the long tail ... When The Long Tail Wags The Dragon
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In my fourth year I learned to write, but had nothing of great importance to communicate by that means.
Norbert Wiener begins his autobiography with the words "I was a child prodigy." What I would have to say is "I was a monster." Possibly that's a slight exaggeration, but as a young boy I certainly terrorized those around me. I would agree only if my father stood on the table and opened and closed an umbrella, or I might allow myself to be fed only under the table. I don't actually remember these things; they are beginnings that lie beyond the boundary of memory. If I was a child prodigy, it could only have been in the eyes of doting aunts.
For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. Clearly, luck is a state of mind. Is it more than that?
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