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And for the briefest moment, I envision sending a company-wide email. Two words. All caps. I QUIT. One day. Just not today.
Felt.
Back then, I was chasing myself—so obsessed with who I wanted to be that I missed the chance to get to know who I was in the moment. I still miss that girl. But I wouldn’t want to be her again.
Someone had to be the collateral damage on his journey of self-improvement. And I guess that someone was me.
I was a late bloomer,
If 18 is late, then what would that make me?!?!
She knew all this effort we’d made to make me palatable wasn’t going to make a difference. I was going to be well-dressed and well-spoken but still Black. She was scared for her little girl.”
“Don’t back off on how good you are at this by couching a completely perfect note with an I think,” he explains. “This is your wheelhouse, Kaliya. Own it.”
We all know that a movie is never the product of one person’s ambition. It is the realization of a collective dream out of a village of artists. So thank you for becoming my village.”
To that point, romance was purely an ideal to me. Something to covet and ponder and pine for. But experiencing it, that was scary.
enigmatic landscape of his world.
The woman came out here with nothing and had a shit time trying to carve a space for herself in the industry. But she did it, and in a big way. So, I have a lot of respect for the hustle.”
so...wouldnt she want to uplift other women in the industry?
“You’re just a little bit more pure than I am, I guess.”
this statement feels a little ew
“It’s one of my favorite things about you, Kal,”
this makes it worse...
I just wanted to make sure you’re thinking through the possibilities here, because some doors lock when they close.”
sometimes, unconsciousness is the only remedy for a hot mess day like today.
Don’t confuse history with mere memories of the way things made you feel.
If I’d been responsive, I’d have known that he’d left it at the airport before boarding. The potential for irrevocable harm to his clients if the iPad had fallen into the wrong hands would be catastrophic. But there I was, off in la-la land, too busy making notes on a script to pick up the damn phone.
sounds like irresponsibility on his part...
Danny shakes his head.
This still isn’t an explanation for the seeming intimacy between those two…
But hearing his explanation makes everything click,
That weakass excuse?!?!
That’s a bold question coming from him considering he ghosted her first
We’re led to believe that being perpetually overworked, underappreciated, and, even worse, underpaid is some sort of rite of passage or ticket to entry. When the worst-kept secret is that so much of the key to success in this town is based on who you know, what you look like, or what you own.”
“You know my feelings for him are like glitter. You think you’ve swept it all up, but when you look in the mirror it’s in your hair and all over your face.”
MOVIE MOGUL & SILVER-SCREEN STARLET CAUGHT ON TAPE IN RACIST PLOT TO SABOTAGE PRESCOTT’S PICTURE
I was wondering why they wouldnt release it sooner
Stephen Colbert’s
why must real celebrities be mentioned each time?!
