‘LA is a meat factory that grinds people into neat little packages. I don’t want to be a neat little package.’
from Instant Party : Musings, Memories and Minutiae by Alan Clayson
Tag: Biography
Quote Of The Week
‘We both lost our cherries there long ago. A visit to The Torch (Hollywood Nightclub in the 1920/30’s) is a prerequisite to any kind of success in Hollywood.’
- Two male extras talking to Valentino, Valentino by Brad Steiger and Chaw Mank
Quote Of The Week
‘I was a very insecure male, a guy who wanted to put his woman into a little box, lock her up and then bring her out when he feels like playing with her.’
Quote Of The Week
‘In making my first appearance before the public, who have treated me well- in fact I may say I am as comfortable now as I was uncomfortable before. I must now bid my kind readers adieu.’
-Joseph Merrick from The Autobiography Of Joseph Merrick (from The True History Of The Elephant Man – Michael Howell and Peter Ford)
Joseph’s Favourite Verse:
‘Was I so tall, could reach the pole
Or grasp the ocean with a span
I would be measured by the soul
The mind’s the standard of the man’
Quote Of The Week
‘There is some satisfaction to be got from setting things down on paper…’
Quote Of The Week
‘Everybody needs a different climate in which to create, like for some people it’s the sun streaming through the blinds, or the Rocky Mountains, or a room sanitized for your own protection.’
LA Free Press 1975 Los Angelas Is Poetry from Tom Waits on Tom Waits. Interviews and Encounters, Edited by Paul Maher.
Quote Of The Week
‘I was born with a happy nature and a happy heart. I was born with the gift of understanding people and loving them and I’ve never been unhappy. I’ve always seen the light at the end of the tunnel.’
Quote Of The Week
”There is a sort of curious success to be derived from what appears to be failure, that if you end up doing something that brings you great happiness, as I have, you have achieved this, as much as the result of your perceived ‘failures,’ as of your perceived ‘successes.’
Quote Of The Week
‘One never knows what is going to happen in life, circumstances change. What we reject today, we long for tomorrow.’
Quote Of The Week
‘If your heart’s in tune, you’ll be in tune.’
Charlie Hart talking to Ian Dury.
Things In My Head 