Poupak's Parisian Life in New York

Here’s what no one can teach—except time, I guess. Time can teach you this: The greatest asset you can have is a steely patience, an ever-present calm, as the money disappears; the studio caves; the star bails; the writer goes into hiding; the stock market collapses; your standing in the community withers. And you just calmly keep making notes or rehearsing or believing—whatever it is you do to maintain a belief in yourself and your work. And very few people have this, and I think that everyone who has had a long career—full of all this insanity and uncertainty—has this gift. It can be developed, but no one teaches it to you or tells you where to go buy it or study it. You have to dig it out of yourself.

~ Arthur Penn (via allthingsconsiderate)

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15 June 2013

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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

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Groucho Marx (via brenttharshman)

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21 April 2013

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