The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.
Woody AllenI don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.
Woody AllenShow business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.
Woody AllenPale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasnโt just intellectual experiencesโthey were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could โrelate without getting close.โ For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.
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