Day 42/100:

"You are not punished for your anger; you're punished by your anger... There's not some moment when you're going to be called to task because you've been angry, but your anger itself is what punishes you, limits your life, restricts you."  - Meg Ryan

Day 41/100:

"You can't go around the theaters handing out cards saying, "It isn't my fault."  You go on to the next one." - John Sturges

Day 40/100:

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."  - Elizabeth Taylor

Day 39/100:

"If you believe in idea, you don't own it.  It owns you." - Raymond Chandler

Day 38/100:

"Our business is both strange and unique.  A business of starlight and glamour - one moment a place of dreams, the next of nightmares."  - Christopher Lee

Day 37/100:

"What you get is a living.  What you give is a life."  - D.W. Griffith

Day 36/100:

"You have to get lucky at some point, but you can only get lucky if you are still on the road, and for each of us, that road, that journey, is of a different length.  The thing is to keep doing it and doing it, any way you can." - Lawrence Kasdan

Day 35/100:

"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person.  Or he became me." - Cary Grant

Day 34/100:

"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor

Day 33/100:

"Listen to everybody.  Don't believe anybody."  - Henry Jaglom

Day 32/100:

"Humility and questioning go hand in hand.  Humility isn't something you make up.  It's... coming up against the great unknown and admitting you just don't know." - Sam Shepard

Day 31/100:

"I don't know anything about luck.  I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do.  Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."  - Lucille Ball

Day 30/100:

"If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art.  Think of it as work... it's hard physical work.  You keep saying, "No, that's wrong, I can do it better."  You have an original, fresh concept; you want to fulfill it as precisely and as completely as you can, and in the effort to achieve that, the constant self-demand is, in essence, what art is." - Paddy Chayevsky

Day 29/100:

"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy.  Which is what life is." - Jack Lemmon

Day 28/100:

"Listening is essential in writing and it takes a lot of practice.  It's not just listening with the ear, but it's that inner sort of listening.  It's like listening to yourself think when you're driving long distances through the night, or listening to yourself play an instrument."  - Sam Shepard

Day 27/100:

"Each writer is born with a repertory company is his head.  As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them." - Gore Vidal

Day 26/100:

This week: All Quotes Specifically about WRITING

"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music.  If you are born knowing them, fine.  If not, learn them.  Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."  - Truman Capote

Day 25/100:

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.  When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age."  - Sophia Loren

Day 24/100:

"There's never any talent without a little strain of madness." - Jean-Louis Trinitgnant

Day 23/100:

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."  - Walt Disney

Day 22/100:

"It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.” - Dave Foley

Day 21/100:

"In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business." - Brett Ratner