#with my growing ... interest in david shaw. i see now.

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that one redacted confession that went something like "the werewolf boys aren't werewolfy enough!! where's the wolf at!!!" i hear you. i see you. i understand you now.

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girlbosses, male wives, and other lesbian genders

a post about jing wei qing shang. but also mostly about another unrelated movie. spoiler-free.

for a lot of people, mulan 1998 is their definitive “ohhh i’m a chinese woman dressing as a man for contrived reasons and i get absolutely nooo erotic pleasure from this” movie. 

however, because i am very special and unique, for me it’s the love eterne 1963. it’s the shaw brothers adaptation of butterfly lovers, the classic chinese folktale. here’s how i’d summarize the movie: 

zhu yingtai, an aspiring scholar, convinces her parents to let her dress as a man to attend school. on the way there, she meets liang shanbo, another prospective student, and they become sworn brothers. they study together for three years, growing closer, until zhu yingtai returns home. liang shangbo accompanies her for the eighteen-li journey home while she hints she’s a woman, but he remains oblivious. by the time he learns her gender, her parents have engaged her to another man. he dies of grief, and while she mourns at his grave, it splits open, and she buries herself inside with him. two scraps of her torn outfit turn into butterflies and fly away.

it’s worth noting here that like. this movie is made in the huangmei opera style. so both zhu yingtai and liang shanbo are played by women (betty loh ti and ivy ling po respectively). because of this, basically every level of the film is preoccupied with gender: if we take zhu yingtai’s male performance as credible (as the characters in the movie do) the leads bond through male homoeroticism; the text is ultimately about a heterosexual romance; it is acted out by two women, in a performance that is difficult to mistake as heterosexual or even feminine; and the dialogue of the movie can’t help but remark on this.

basically it asks: what if lesbians could be gay both ways? wouldn’t that be based? 

like opera was traditionally made by single gender casts, so roles tended to be genderless, in that the gender of the actor doesn’t determine the gender of the role they play. roles are instead typed into four categories: dan (fem), sheng (masc), chou (clown), and jing (painted face). it’s a sick gender quadinary. each of these roles has further subtypes that are represented through stylized patterns of singing, makeup, costuming, movement etc.

so in butterfly lovers, betty loh ti plays a dan, and ivy ling po plays a sheng. but because of the textual cross-gender play, you end up with a woman playing a woman playing a man who falls in love with a woman playing a man.

i’m going to make a brief digression here into talking about like.. acting theory. in the european tradition, you see it evolving out of early concerns (from stanislavski, brecht) about the fourth wall, and its permeability or lack thereof. in chinese opera tradition, the fourth wall didn’t ever really exist. and mei lanfang, the legendary fanchuan performer, claimed that his success wasn’t just due to his appearance, but rather, his mastery of some nonliteral feminine subjectivity. 

If I kept my male feelings, even just a trace, it will betray my true self; then how can I compete for the audience’s affection for feminine beauty and guile?

i’m not going to argue that there’s like, an essence to being a woman because i’m not a fucking idiot. but there’s something to be said for the idea that the gendered interplay between the audience’s perception of the actor, the actor’s perception of themself, and the character they play is a massive part of the appeal of fanchuan performance.

this is echoed by david hwang’s m. butterfly, in which gallimard memorably says, “i’m a man who loved a woman created by a man. everything else—simply falls short.” btw sorry for having the type of brain disease where i constantly reference chinese crossdressing related media. you already know why i have it. 

anyway. parallel to that (but far less morally detestably), jin jiang argues “young male impersonators in yue opera embody women’s ideal men—elegant, graceful, capable, caring, gentle, and loyal.” so, trivially, 1) the eroticism embodied by fanchuan performers is distinctly different from their “straight” counterparts, and perhaps less trivially 2) it’s way better. 

back to the love eterne for a bit. one of the many reasons it’s lodged itself into my psyche is because there’s something more interesting at play than just all that. normally in opera, to compensate for any perceived residual femininity in the sheng, the dan camps it up even further. so this is how zhu yingtai first appears, this bratty femme pastiche of womanhood. yet within a couple minutes she’s dressed as a man, which she’ll stay as for the bulk of the movie. they do however make compromises with the makeup--more gently lifted eyebrows than the steep angles of the sheng opera beat, and an improbably masculine smoky eye. 

that’s right. they performed girlbossification on her. 

i don’t want to suggest that she’s straightforwardly feminine. i could write an entire other thing on her relationship to masculinity. instead i want to highlight the erotic interplay not just between the “girl” and the “boss” but also between her and her counterpart: the male wife. 

liang shanbo is ostensibly straightforwardly male, but his relationship with zhu yingtai isn’t gay in the ahaha what if i was into my bro way-- it’s a what if i was into my bro and i was his wife way.

that’s right. they performed force fem on a cis woman-man. like when zhu yingtai tells him he can’t watch over her as she recovers from an illness because “boys and girls can’t sleep together,” liang shanbo asks “are you implying that I’m a girl?”

there’s a lot of shit like this that builds up over the course of the movie. it all culminates in that final 18 mile journey. along the way, zhu yingtai compares them to a pair of mandarin ducks, one male & one female. liang shanbo sputters “i am a man inside out-- you shouldn’t--” before graciously conceding, “you may compare me to a woman.” 

this is like. a simple punchline. but it’s incredible. it’s true! liang shanbo isn’t a man inside out in that he’s a man and only a man, but rather that he’s a man seen inside first, built for desiring, by a woman & for a woman. as a perpetual object, he becomes a more believable woman than zhu yingtai. and at least in his view, it seems more likely that he could be a woman than her. but beyond that, his permissive tone reads as a kind of wanting in itself--recast, if she wants, “for you, i’ll be a woman.” 

obviously this is a classic lesbian mood. who among us has not seen “no gender only lesbian” posts. and speaking of classic lesbians, you might ask. did you just tiresomely reinvent butches and femmes but with a more annoying name? yes. no. okay. well. 

first, like butch/femme dynamics have both historical specificity and a classed character such that it’s not rlly that appropriate to impose them on the love eterne. and i guess more importantly, i wanna talk about stuff that isn’t real.

we fight all day about people who confuse performance with performativity, (i use we lightly here. for instance, i go outside every day so i don’t care about discourse) but what if we actually wanted to talk about the former for once? something specifically, whether we choose or are forced into it, that we pretend to be? 

anyway. what the hell does all that have to do with jing wei qing shang. i’m going to start by first making the argument that there’s no such thing as a naturally occurring girlboss. i think, honestly, she’s a product of capitalism (“boss” should be the tipoff here) but because both of these stories are set in ambiguously historical china, i’m going to say, instead that she’s a product of uhhh primitive accumulation.

semantics so that i can be canon compliant with marxism aside, if girlbosses are made not born, can you choose to be a girlboss? sheryl sandberg says yes. i don’t disagree, i guess, but i will say: stop glamorizing it! humans only become girlbosses when they’re greatly distressed. 

you become a girlboss when you have no other choice not to be one. when your wants are too great to be a woman, when the things you want are not things that women should want-- whether that’s something that really no one should want, like being a ceo, or whether that’s just something like loving a woman (or, as it is quite often, both) -- you have to become something else. 

another important part of being a girlboss is that other people are not. your excesses mean that not only do you lose something in the process, but your bosshood comes at the expense of others. the girlboss necessitates a girlworker, or so to speak. 

now we’re getting to jwqs. i’m assuming that you haven’t read jwqs, because most people haven’t. that was me until like four days ago. in broad strokes, the novel is about a woman, qiyan agula, who was raised as a prince, and her quest for revenge against the kingdom who slaughtered her people. of course, this involves marrying one of the princesses of that kingdom. it’s all very exciting (lesbian). 

what’s striking about jwqs is that both of them seem to fit the girlboss paradigm, in vaguely similar ways. qi yan (agula’s assumed name) seems to follow the lineage of zhu yingtai, who pretends to be a man to achieve her goals. she’s forced to give up much in the process, and also sacrifices a, uh, lot of innocent people. similarly, nangong jingnu, the princess, is inherently a girlboss because royalty sucks. but also, qi yan girlbossifies her over the course of their relationship. 

but i wouldn’t say jwqs is girlboss4girlboss. there’s something a little more complicated happening. qi yan isn’t zhu yingtai in that she’s a dan pretending to be a sheng. it seems more like that she was a sheng all along. it’s something that the women of the novel return to often: qi yan seems to be better than a man.

for instance, nangong sunu, jingnu’s older sister, reflects on this. 

Nangong Sunu had seen many foolishly loving women who sacrificed everything for the sake of their husbands, but there were rarely any men who would do the same for them. 

(...) 

Thinking it through, Nangong Sunu felt that Qi Yan was truly becoming more interesting. She intended to observe discreetly for a while, to verify if such a man truly existed in this world. (ch 221) 

and i forgot to write down the citation for this, but nangong jingnu also seems to argue that not only is qi yan prettier than a man, but she also seems to be prettier than a woman. (it’s the bit where she’s watching qi yan sleep. help me out here.)

moreover, the way qi yan relates to nangong jingnu is suggestive. jingnu brings out the elements of wanting to be a woman in her. it’s jingnu’s body that makes her wonder what she would look like if she was more feminine. it’s jingnu’s happiness that she resents, wishing that her people could have that as well. it’s her desire for jingnu that makes her a woman. 

(another important distinction i suppose--while one person can’t be both a butch and a femme, because the girlboss and the male wife are things we pretend to be until we embody them / them us -- there’s greater slippage between the two.)

anyway, the girlboss/male wife dynamic is reversed wrt who’s actually dressing as a different gender. that suggests an inversion in the implications we see from the love eterne, if we are to take the love eterne as the paradigmatic girlboss text. which i do, for no reason in particular. 

so then, is qi yan pretending to be a man? under the opera framework, we’re forced to say no. she’s not pretending to be a man any more so than liang shanbo (as acted by ivy ling po) was. but that, of course, feels incorrect, just looking at the text. is she, then, pretending to be a sheng? i’d strongly say no. the things that others see in her, they authentically see; and she does authentically feel the same things as liang shanbo wrt femininity.

so it has to be the opera framework that jwqs is subverting then. if qi yan kept some trace of her once-womanhood, if qi yan reveals her true self, and yet she still can compete for the audience’s affection-- jwqs’s inversion of the opera framework seems to argue instead that it’s that true self that allows you to compete. it’s being masc that lets you be a desirable woman; it’s being feminine that lets you be a desirable man.

there’s an increased gender ambivalence to jwqs, which make sense, i guess, seeing as it’s not meant to be a het story the way that the love eterne was. for instance, nangong jingnu crossdresses to go out in public, and qi yan remarks that jingnu’s disguise fooled her on their first meeting. when qi yan and jingnu go out in public, both disguised as men, they’re repeatedly perceived as a gay male couple. there’s freedom in that: they could be gay women only privately, they could be straight officially, but they could be anonymously gay publicly. 

so it’s through the gay male pretense that they can be gay women; it’s through the qi yan pretense that agula can love women; it’s the qi yan caring husband persona that coaxes jingnu in caring for qi yan in return-- jwqs, more precisely, argues that you can’t be a woman if you’re going to love them, and even less so if you’re going to be loved by one. 

this is perhaps well-trodden ground for anyone who has read wittig & certainly many people who haven’t. but it’s the layer of pretense that for me complicates these two narratives. 

i think it’s a relatable feeling: wanting something anticipating getting something, or wanting something for yourself anticipating knowing that you already had it. that is, desire in itself being constitutive of that reality. 

or less abstractly, knowing that you’d want to be a lesbian if you could, knowing that you’d want not to be a woman if you could-- anticipating any realization of either. 

the dramatic excesses & wants of the girlboss, i think, are a decent literary stand in for being a lesbian. 

i wanna note here that this is rlly just based on my experience being a transmisogyny exempt nonbinary diaspora lesbian lol. it’s fun & cathartic to overread this history & place myself in the accidental implications.

i don’t think most of the things i say are literally true. and i don’t want to overstep & say any of this can be generalized. please lmk if something here doesn’t read right! ok kisses bye

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Saturday 28 April 1838: SH:7/ML/E/21/0085

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fine but dull morning F42° at 9 and breakfast in about ¾ hour and then had William Mallinson and paid him for spouts at Little marsh, and had Mr. Bollard a civil young man (Ironmonger) about his bill from last midsummer to xmas – told him to make it out again in 3 – for Northgate Shibden hall and Little marsh – all this took me till 10 5 – then off with A- to Landymere – she rode and I walked by her side as far as the Lodge, she then road forwards and I stood a few minutes with Mr. Gray and Robert Mann who had proposed making the 3 large oblong sandstones do the draw-wall – Mr. Gray sketched and Roberts’ idea, and we were all satisfied – ordered to be done – at Landymere by the old Northowram road in ½ hour – found A- and SW. and Mr. Bentley – SW set out 1200 yards 30 yards along the hollow at 27ft. from the fence x 40 up the hill (including the present quarry hole) at 4ft. from the fence

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between the Sutherlands’ and Mesdames Lancashire and Brook – Bentley to come on Monday at 4pm to sign the rough draft of the agreement – terms explained to him and SW. 1200 yards as above named at 8d. per ft. of good stone – 8ft. thick? or 9ft. at present? – but no matter if thicker or thinner paid for at 9d. – the whole to be paid for in 3 years by equal ½ yearly payments – or rather 400 yards per annum to be paid for – and 4 years allowed to get it in – Road to the new road to be £5 per annum whether in one place or other – SW. to come on Tuesday and the site of the road to be settled – SW. did not think the little hole Joseph Mann is sinking, too high up in the field – 8 yards deep at present and only got down to the Crooked stone – the same beds (there will be 2) as Mrs. Aspinalls’ and Mr. Listers’ – not Bentley’s bed – A- then rode off to Holcans wood, and I walked by Wester croft and David Booths’ and Hipperholme to Hove edge to Messrs. Naylor Heap and Goodyears’ Day-quarry – mined underground like coal coming out to the Day – Mr. Luke Goodyear there ready to receive me – very civil went with me into the 3 places the 7 men (4 + 2 + 1) were working in a tram-road made of a plank deal cut into 6 and an iron edge laid on it, that the fall of a stone might not break the iron – an ass in the tram road and where one of the mines met it at a right angles an ingenious sort of platform moving on a pivot that would turn the load round into the tram road without trouble – this quarry in working 7 or 8 years – some good stone, but had not paid yet – In Mr. Macaulay’s land – Aspinall had it before at 2/6 per yard – gave it up – 8 yards of baring – the present firm took the whole field allowance being made for a ruttle (12? or 15? yards wide) – bed of stone from 2 to 6ft. thick – now about 6ft. – would not pay if not worked in this way – costs £20 a year in timber to support the roof – noticed a curious sort of white arbores cent moult-like moss or mould ramifying in places on the dark raggy or hard scaly roof – would be better for underground working if more baring – the bed of stone here is 4 yards I think he said above my bed in yew trees wood quarry – he walked with me across the Hove edge road into McAulays’ wood looking down up Southolme and at the style at the bottom of the steep past of the footpath shewed me my own bed at the bottom of a quarry hole there (close on the left going down) and his bed at the top of this hole – some talk about Mr. Richard Pollards’ stone – he had offered it to Messrs. Naylor and c° - they ought to have 500 yards at 1/. per yard, and then 2/. per yard as much as it was worth – thought of baring might be taken to A-‘s Hipperholme Lane ends quarry – would look again – I said I knew other people were thinking of the stone – mentioned my plan of laying a baring so as to make a road from A-‘s quarry mentioned also its being said in Hardcastles’ presence and mine that a road thro’ the wood would be worth more than £5 a year – (alluding in my own mind to SW’s valuation on pay Hardcastle for the damages done to his field in walling) – I had been perhaps ½ hour or nearly at the quarry – gave the 1st 4 men 2/. as a footing and the 2nd pair 1/. and of the last took no notice – arrived at the quarry about one or a little after and it was about 2 when I parted with Mr. Goodyear in Mr. Macaulays’ wood just above Mr. Sowdens’ when I saw my way clearly before me – then to Southolme – found Abraham Hemingway in his barn – went with him to see the piece (close up to Mr. Thomsons’ land) of ground proposed being given by Mr. Naylor for the bit to be taken at the bottom of his wood and top of my field to [found] his bur wall upon – Abraham thought 2 yards x 30 would be wanted – Mr. Naylor soon came to us – a very civil well mannered neat tidy looking middle aged man who was so civil and apparently anxious to do what was right and liberal that we agreed at once – but Abraham set a corner = 15x15 yards = 225 yards – the ground to be given very much more valuable certainly than that to be taken – Mr. N- agreed to give 60 yards of his against 60 yards of mine – if more wanted, I agreed to pay a [on?] consideration – SW. to measure and value and anyone else Mr. N- chose – then viewed the place where ground was wanted – told Mr. N- he should have what he wanted to make a good job – of course he would take as little as he could for his own sake as well as mine – but if he had occasion to take 2 good ash trees standing in my fence, these must be valued and placed to the account of the superior value of his land to that of mine – N- said he could give no writing – but there would be no trouble – all parties agreeable – the trustee Mr. Brook and all – and on the death of their wives, the estate must come into the market, and I should have no trouble – I said I had no fear about that – for Mr. SW. would measure and lay all down on the estate plan, and if Mr. N-‘s party should claim back from me, I should do the same from them and they might be glad to be quiet – or equity would settle the matter for us – Mr. N- expressed himself very much obliged – repeated it several times – said nobody could have behaved more handsomely – I merely said he might sometime have some opportunity of obliging me – sure he should not be slow to do it – he then mentioned Mr. Richard Pollards’ stone – Repeated the substance of all I had said to Mr. Goodyear N- thought the stone not worth more than 2/. a yard – said I had thrown a new light upon it – not aware anybody else was after the stone – mentioned no names but said other people had named it to me – mentioned also (which I had not named to Mr. Goodyear) my paying Mr. Pollard 1/. per yard for 40 yards and Simeon Shaw the tenant also 1/. per yard to keep me safe from the entrance in Mr. Pollards’ note that he must make the hole into the ground again – N- said RP. could give more title beyond his own life – but said I, his brother might sign also – it would be or might be made his interest to do so, and then all would be safe – mentioned also that I should like to have some of the ground after it was quarried and had named offering 2d. per yard to Mr. Goodyear – Mr. N- and I parted the best possible friends – he would see me again about the quarry – said I should be glad to see him at SH. then with Abraham Hemingway – mentioned Gill that I had seen this morning in the road [?] on this side of David Booths’ driving out of Goodyear’s cart – the man said he was cousin to Abraham H- and had married his daughter and wanted to take the Godley paddock – no! that impossible – could not do without it myself – he stood talking thought of setting up cart and horse of his own, and wanted a field – said I would think about it – that is, remember him if anything likely fell out – as he was so connected,

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I would mention to him to Miss Walker – but if he heard no more of it, he must conclude that we had neither of us anything to suit him – Inquired his character of Abraham H- it seems A- had nothing against him – a very good husband and respectable man, but 14 or 15 years older than his wife, and had as it were stolen her away, her parents being against the match – took her away in the night time – and it was clear Abraham had not forgiven this – said it was well to let them do for themselves – would not do much for them – the ash tree Abraham cut down a very good one – gave him all but about 6 or 8 ft. long of the thick part – this would cut into 4 capital axels – 2 for a large cart 2 for a smaller one said Abraham must keep this piece for me for about a year to season, and then I should not forget it, but perhaps get him to get it cut up for me and I should then bring it away – then stood talking to Abraham about the expense and profit of keeping horses – Abraham said they paid very little or sometimes not at all – for if he lost a horse or any accident happened it was long before this was recovered – Luke Goodyear said he had lost £40 last year – lost a horse worth £30 – Abraham owned he bought in his horses at under £30 on the average – but a good horse worth £30 now - £5 out of £30 down now than they would be 3 or 4 months hence – Abraham Haighs’ light bay that I have thought of worth £30 – 4 off – will grow – 15 ½ hands now – I said well! but he (Abraham) got his farming in (that ishis farm work done) into the bargain – yes! he said this was his profit – he gets his corn (3ds. [?] meal and oats) of Mr. Brook of Brighouse – calculates a horse to eat of this 8/. per week and 1 ½ st. of hay a day 1/. = 7/. per week – would not pay at all if he (Abraham) himself did not go with his horse to the delf – has seven horses – said I inquired because I thought of carting my own coal, or it would not pay –

calculates Abrahams’ horses at each 8/. + 7/. = 15/. per week and per pair 30/. + mans’ wages 15/. + wear and tear and blacksmiths bills etc. 5/. = total £2.10.0 per pair [co.]! I can manage it I think – sauntered home along the brook all the way by pinnel bridge and Dumb mill ditto to Mitham mill and home by Listerwick (the trenching in progress in Jonathan Mallinsons’ field) about 4 ½ - found A- dressing – ¼ hour with her – and she rode off to Cliff hill at 4 ¾ - had told Oddy of going with us to London – O- much pleased – promised to keep the secret till Monday – I not to go to church tomorrow but stay at home and get ready – wrote the whole of the above of today till now 6 ¼ - having just paid (per Robert Norton) George Naylors’ sawyers bill for larch rails and boards sawing – and now going down to pay Stephen Scholefield – wrote letters – had George Naylor (wright) and the 2 Manns and the gardener and paid Mr. Harper of the Stump X Inn the supper bill of 16th ultimo for Booths’ men all who had worked here – 21 of them – Paid Robert Mann, and gave Joseph £50 in a/c – had not time to settle with him and still had not done till after 8 – dinner at 8 10 – and had coffee with Mr. Gray in the dining and came upstairs at 10 pm paid Oddy her little bill she had paid for bran – at accounts and memoranda till 1 25 tonight fine but dull day or very little sun – much warmer than yesterday – not so much cold east wind – calm – F35° at 11 pm it was 7pm or after before I had despatched Sam booth with the letter bag containing my letter to ‘Messrs. Hammersley and c° Bankers London post paid’ asking them to get my passport visaed, it being my intention to embark in London for Antwerp tomorrow week and proceed thence by Brussels to Paris taking with me my niece Miss Walker and 2 servants (Susan Oddy and George Wood) – letter also to ‘Messrs. Pearce and Baxter coach-makers Longacre London Post paid’ expect being in London on Thursday evening next and immediately on arriving will send them the carriage to be examined and made ready for embarking on the following Sunday – shall be much obliged if they can provide me a neat clean chariot and good horses to do about town on Friday and Saturday’ – letter also to ‘Mrs. Hawkins 26 Dover street London Post paid’ expect being in London on Thursday evening to dinner – shall be glad if Mrs. Hawkins can take me in for 2 or 3 days – if not, much obliged to her to take me an apartment in the nearest comfortable family hotel – (myself Miss Walker and 2 servants as usual)

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“Faking It” Andrew gets led through the hallways of the palace, holding a bottle of wine. He glances around, “I see renovations are nearly done.” The aide leading him ignores his comment and opens a door, “King David is waiting for you inside.” Andrew goes into the dining room, and sees David standing there, waiting for him. Andrew, “Your Majesty. Thank you so much for inviting me tonight.” David warily, “Just call me David,” he gestures over to a seat, “And please, sit.” David sits down, and Andrew hands the bottle of wine to a waiter. To David, he says, “I brought a bottle of wine for just to enjoy with dinner tonight. It’s a lively grenache from a small winery on the Carmel coast.” David, “Yeah, sounds great, serve it up.” As they go on with their conversation, the waiter uncorks the bottle and serves the wine. Andrew, “And what’s being served tonight?” David, “Grilled Pacific octopus.” Andrew, “Superb.” David gestures to the waiters, “Can you start serving us?” The waiters nod and get to work. Andrew, “I have to say I’m surprised that you would invite me here for dinner.” David, “Think of this as a peace offering.” Andrew raises an eyebrow. David, “I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said to me at the wedding reception. Ultimately, I think you’re right. WE both have a common interest in seeing the truth get told.” Andrew smiles, “Well, I’m delighted we can see eye-to eye on this.” David, “There’s still a few things I want you to understand.” Andrew, “Oh?” David, “When the sex tape got leaked, yeah, it was embarrassing. But that was just a small part of it. When it came out that Jack and I were a couple, it put the AFG in danger, and we had to leave Ammon.” Andrew, “Yes, I’m well aware, and I know what you’re getting at. You don’t want me publishing state secrets, and that’s all fine. I have no interest in publishing classified military intelligence. My Uncle Silas kept so many secrets, and look what it did to our nation. What secrets are you keeping, David?” David laughs nervously, “I don’t have any secrets.” Andrew, “You’d be surprised.” David stares at Andrew awkwardly as waiters serve the food. Andrew smiles at his server, “Thank you so much,” he looks down at the food, “This looks incredible,” he begins to eat, “Mmmm. Absolutely unbelievable.” David quietly eats his food. Andrew, “I got dragged to so many awkward palace family dinners growing up. I would tolerate the awkward conversation and annoying cousins because the food was always so delicious. I am absolutely thrilled to see that in this regard, nothing has changed.” David, “Yeah, no kidding. The food goes a long way to making this whole king business easier.” Andrew, “I’ve heard you’re something of a foodie. The quickest way to gain your favor is with some new exotic dish you haven’t tried.” David, “If you’re implying that I can be bribed with food, I can’t.” Andrew, “I’m not implying anything. I’ve just repeating what’s been observed.” David sighs, “I’ll make a deal with you.” Andrew, “Yes?” David, “You can publish whatever you want about me, but, stay away from Jack.” Andrew raises his eyebrow in surprise. David, “Look, I don’t care what people say about me. I mean, I’m the king, of course I’m gonna get talked about and criticized and made fun of. I welcome it. But right now Jack is going through a recovery that’s difficult enough without constant coverage over every little frustration and setback.” Andrew, “Are you talking about when we reported on his seizures and headaches?” David, “Yeah.” Andrew smirks, “I heard you were upset over that. You really shouldn’t be upset over it, we only reported facts.” David, “I watched him get shot.” Andrew, “Yes, I’m familiar with this story.” David, “I can’t tell you what kind of hell it is to be completely helpless knowing that the person you love is hurt and needs you, and you can’t be there.” Andrew, “Jack is a public figure.” David, “Please. At least for as long as he’s recovering. After that, you can report all you want on him, but for now…. please.” Andrew grins with smug satisfaction, “You know, it’s really quite gratifying to see a king beg. I suppose if I refuse, you’re going to threaten me, imply that I’m somehow colluding with Gath.” David, “I’m not. I’m asking you sincerely.” Andrew, “And I can see how very sincere you are,” he takes a bit of food and smiles, “Very well. I won’t publish anything about Jack’s recovery.” David, “Thank you.” Andrew, “I am still free, however, to publish about Jack himself. The public has a right to know that he’s a spoiled brat who wanted the luxury and privilege of being royal without the responsibilities of being king, so he passed it off to you.” David sighs and rolls his eyes, “I don’t care if you publish that because it’s not even remotely true.” Andrew, “Truth is subjective.” David, “Are we in agreement, then?” Andrew thinks for a moment, “I suppose we are.” David, “Good.” Andrew smiles brilliantly, “I’m glad we could come to this understanding. Perhaps, with a little luck, we can build a better relationship going into the future.” David, “I hope we can so that.” Andrew, “And believe me, I do understand, you and Jack have been through some truly unbelievable things together. It’s only natural that you’re very protective of him.” David, “I couldn’t be king without him. He’s the one thing keeping me sane in all this. I- I know it’s probably stupid of me trying to appeal to your humanity like this.” Andrew smiles, “You know, I’m not the villain you must think I am. I don’t want to end up like my father, lost in petty grievances. I want to be a man my daughter can be proud of, even if I am in a rather unsavory business.” David, “You must be proud of her.” Andrew, “Oh, yes. You know, for as angry as I initially was when Jack took CrossGen from me, now I’m almost glad to be relieved of it. The shackles of three hundred years of familial expectations have been taken off of me. I can be my own man.”

David sits in the council chamber with Reinhardt, Abby, and Shay. Shay, “We’re taking a number of troops off of the Ammon border, and I need to know what to do with them.” Reinhardt, “We’re sending them to the Gath front, obviously.” David, “I’m a little hesitant about that. Is Shaw gonna see that as some sort of escalation?” Reinhardt, “We can’t operate out of fear of angering Shaw.” David, “Yeah, I know, it’s just, he’s gonna react to this, so we need to do it carefully.” Shay, “With the forces re-distributed along the front, we have enough to fight back if he decides to attack us.” David, “The goal is to get him to not attack us.” Abby, “That’s what I’m here for.” Reinhardt, “Gath’s army is still hurting from the failure of the CrossGen contract. They were counting on continued manufacturing, and they’re scrambling to make up the gap with what little resources they have.” David, “That’s good to know.” Reinhardt goes on, “Also, Gath isn’t immune from the David effect.” David raises his eyebrows in curiosity. Reinhardt, “Our sources are reporting a sharp increase in talk of a resistance to Premier Shaw. The people want and end to the war, too, and they want their rights.” Rose enters, “I have something you need to address!” David, “I’m kind of busy.” “Rose, it needs to be addressed now.” She pulls out her phone and presses a button. A recording of David’s voice, “That doesn’t sound like the fucking woods to you?!” Rose, “It was posted on OMGossip. What is it?” David, sighing with annoyance, “It’s me having a panic attack in the apartment in Ashdod. I fucking knew that place was bugged.” Abby, “We were all careful about everything we said. There was a big thunderstorm one night and it triggered David’s PTSD.” Rose, “You shouldn’t worry about this, then. You’ve been frank about your mental health and you’re receiving treatment now.” Reinhardt, “We need to be worried. Surveillance recordings like this are all highly classified. How the fuck did OMGossip get this without help directly from Gath?” David, “Jack thinks the sex tape came from William Cross. We know he was in contact with Shaw, and Shaw probably gave it to him. Cross probably had this and Andrew got it when he died.” Reinhardt, “We can’t rely on that, we still need to investigate.” David, “Andrew is trying to rattle me. I had dinner with him the other night and I struck a deal that he can publish whatever he wants about me, as long as he leaves Jack alone. Of course he’s gonna test that right away. If we make a big deal about it, he’s gonna immediately play the victim and make a big story about how I’m suppressing the free press.” Abby, “I can make a diplomatic inquiry. Send a message to Gath, at least.” David, “If all they have is recordings of us, then you and I know this is the absolute worst that they have. The best thing we can do right now is to show that we’re not afraid.” Joel, “David’s right. If we’re gonna nail that little bastard, it should be for a real, provable crime.” Rose sighs deeply. David looks at her, “What?” Rose, “Andrew’s trying to prove something, and I don’t know what it is, yet. He’s smarter than William. He’s not going to go around buddying up to terrorists.” David, “I’m not afraid of him! He’s trying to prove that he’s powerful and influential, and that’s fine! I’m still the king!” He thinks for a moment and sighs, “Look, I’ve got other things to deal with today, so let’s just leave it here, okay?” Everyone says, “Okay.” David gets up and leaves.

David walks through the nearly-finished palace lobby. Whereas before it was cold and intimidating, the new vibe is warmer and more comfortable, with plants and sunlight. He goes into the ballroom, which is now spectacularly decorated with a blue celestial motif. Monique is standing in the middle, under a sparkling new chandelier, looking around. David approaches her, “Hey, so what’s up?” Monique, “The Palace is gonna be officially re-opened soon. We need to make some decisions about how we’re gonna do it.” David, “I dunno, I suck at this shit. What are you thinking?” Monique, “We’ve got a story to tell. We need to tell it the right way.” David, “I answered all the questions at Council, and I talked to Elite, what more good will digging around in the past do?” Monique, “You answered questions and talked about the future. The AFG hasn’t had its story coherently told from start to finish. Not yet.” David, “So what do you want to do?” Monique, “I had the idea of creating an exhibition of photos and objects that tell the story.” David, “Like a museum?” Monique, “It’s history.” David, “What do we even have? It’s not like we were able to keep souvenirs.” Monique, “We don’t need much, we just have to tell the story.” David, “I dunno. Jack has a lot of pictures on his phone, but they’re like mostly pictures of me taking my shirt off.” Monique, jokingly, “See, we’ve already got ways of getting people interested.” David rolls his eyes, “I’m just not sure I see the point.” Monique, “We have to tell the story before someone else does. We’ve got a rare opportunity and we need to take advantage of it.” David, “So what are we gonna say? That the war was awesome and we all had a party?” Monique, “You do want you people to think of you as a brave and inspiring leader, right?” David, “Yeah, I guess.” Monique, “You guess?” David, “I just don’t want this to end up being like that movie they made about Silas.” Monique, “It’s not often that you get to control how your personal life gets displayed. What do you want people to know?” David sighs, “I dunno. I need to think about it.” Monique: “I think the starting place is pretty obvious: the picture of you blowing up the tank, and then the picture of you stopping the attack in Damascus.” David, “I hate that picture.” Monique, “It’s kind of iconic.” David, “What happened in Damascus was fucking horrible, why would I want to prop it up as something worth celebrating?” Monique, “Because it’s not about you, it’s about how people see you.” David, “What am I supposed to say about it, anyway? That I shot at someone and I was fucking lucky that it was a terrorist and not a civilian?” Monique, “David, I watched you do the damn thing, you knew it was a terrorist. Why are you so uncomfortable with your own achievements?” David, “It doesn’t feel right to call it an achievement when people died.” Monique, “Did Alek Amal lay eggs in your brain? Because that’s all I’m hearing right now.” David, “It’s just fucking weird for people to take all the worst moments of my life and go, oh, look, what a great guy, what a hero.” Monique, “Okay, this is officially a job for your therapist, not me. Can you just trust that I’m trying to right by you?” David, “I do trust you,” he sighs, “I’m just getting caught up in my own bullshit is all. There’s just something de-humanizing about having an image.” Monique, “Aren’t you glad to be at a point in your life where existential bullshit is your biggest problem?”

David and Jack sit looking at pictures on a tablet. David teasingly plays with Jack’s hair, and Jack tries to brush his hand away. David smiles adoringly down at him, “Do you think you’d be willing to show up at this exhibition thing?” Jack makes a face, “I can’t talk.” David, “You talk fine.” Jack makes a face and points to the scar on his forehead, “People see… all people see. Care about. Scar. Can’t talk. One giant brain injury.” David, “Just a few months ago you could only say a handful of words. I was just thinking it’d be a good chance to show how far you’ve come.” Jack, “No. You don’t…” he struggles to think of the right words, but can’t think of any, “You’re the hero.” David, “What’s that got to do with anything?” Jack, “Talking is hard.”

David, dressed up in a tux, stands in the newly-renovated ball room. It’s been done up with a pale blue color scheme and a stunning celestial map on the ceiling. Along the walls are objects and images related to the AFG. David walks along and looks at them. He lingers over the image of Isaiah diffusing a bomb in the Western mall, and gazes forlornly at the jacket embroidered CLEMENS. He goes on, and stops in front of a larger-than-life image of him shooting the Amalekite in Damascus. He stands, literally dwarfed by his image.  Rose approaches him in a chic black gown, “Where is Jack?” David, “He’s upstairs. He doesn’t want to come.” Rose, “He needs to be here.” David, “He doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to.” Rose makes a face of disapproval, “He’s always looking for an excuse to get out of these things. He’ll never show up, if you let him.” David, “If you can get him out of his sweatpants and into a tux, you can drag him down here, but the deal I made with him is he doesn’t have to do anything until he’s ready, and tonight, he’s not ready.” Rose, “You spoil him.” David, “Yeah, well, I’ve kind of earned the right to do that.” They both go quiet and stare up at the picture for a moment. David, “Why didn’t Silas come to Council at Damascus?” Rose, “He got a message from God telling him not to go.” David, “Seriously?” Rose, “To be perfectly honest… I think he was afraid of facing off against you. He knew that no matter what stunt he pulled, you’d out-shine him. And look at that, you did.”

Michelle stands next to him. David, “Is it wrong that I’m kind of scared shitless right now? I have no idea how I’m supposed to handle these society people.” Michelle, “Be polite, flatter their egos, and make them think that donating to your favorite charities will gain influence with you.” David, sarcastic, “That sounds really fucking easy. I don’t even know who these people are, but I already know they don’t like being not recognized.” Michelle, “Don’t worry, I’ll keep you covered.”

David and Jessie stand behind the grand doors of the ballroom, arm-in-arm. Jessie beams up at David while he tries not to fret. Jessie, “This is so exciting!” David, “I’m glad you’re excited, Mom.” Jessie looks at him, “What? Are you nervous.” David, “A little.” Jessie, “You’ve been to these events before!” David, “Not as king, though. I have no idea how to talk to all these rich people. Everyone in there wants something from me.” Jessie, “They just want to be dazzled, you’re good at that!” David, “Only when there’s something I can blow up.” On the other side of the door, the muffled voice of an announcer, “Announcing His Royal Majesty, King David Shepherd of Gilboa.” Jessie laughs, “I still can’t get over hearing that!” The doors swing open, and David leads Jessie forward. He looks down the staircase and sees the ballroom crowded with joyfully applauding guests. He sees Rose and Michelle at the foot of the stairs, applauding for him. The AFG fam is scattered around the crowd, as are James, Ethan, Sean, and his family. Reinhardt smirks up at him, Lydia looking gorgeous at his side. Liam has a hot date, and Adam stands awkwardly away from them. Finally Andrew applauds coldly while Chloe beams at David. Jessie leans into David, “See, they love you!” David forces a wide smile and descends the stairs. Michelle comes over and greets him with a hug. David mutters into her ear, “Oh my God. Help me.” Michelle, “Don’t worry. I’ve got you.”

(“Pussy Got Ya Hooked” Three 6 Mafia) David stands sandwiched between Rose and Michelle. An older man and a beautiful young woman approach. Rose, “This is Eric and Laci Busch. Eric is the CEO of a large manufacturing firm.” Michelle leans in and whispers, “Wife, not daughter.” David smiles politely and extends his hand, “It’s very nice to meet you.” Eric, “Oh, it’s thrilling to meet you, your majesty. Used to be I had no problem getting the ear of the king, but since you’ve taken over, I’ve had a much harder time. I believe we can make some very good business deal in the future.” David, “I look forward to speaking with you then.” Eric, “You know, Laci is quite an admirer of yours. She’s been charmed by your charisma for some time.” David, staying humble, “I hear that a lot.” Laci leans in and whispers in his ear, “I will suck your dick so well you’ll make me a duchess.” Elsewhere, David talks to Michelle alone, as she points to various people in the room, “Racist, pedophile, poop fetish.” David, “Oh my god, I have to talk to somebody.” Michelle, “I know, I’m trying to find someone who’s not horrible.” David, “What about him?” Michelle, “He fucking hates Jack because he slept with his daughter and didn’t get her pregnant.” David, “Jesus, what about him?” Michelle, “Murdered his third wife and got away with it.” David talks to a rich man’s trophy twink. Twink, “You’re even more handsome up close,” in a low, breathy voice, “Jack is a lucky boy.” He puts a hand on David’s chest, and David steps away, laughing nervously. The comedian who plays David on Late Night poses with the real David. David stands next to a group of people looking at the photo of everyone on the palace balcony after the coup. A man in the group, “What are you thinking in this picture?” David, “I’m mostly trying not to barf.” David talks to an old man. Old man, “You should just bomb the shit out of Ashdod. Make those Phil motherfuckers weep, all of ‘em, men women and children.” David, “That would kind of be a war crime.” Old man, “Who gives a shit?” David talks to a woman. Woman, “I’m not going to waste your time with any bullshit, how large of a check do I have to write to get the council to rethink their tariff policy?” David, “I don’t accept bribes, and anyone within my administration found taking bribes will be charged with a very serious crime.” Woman, “It’s not a bribe. It’s a gift. How much?” Reinhardt sweeps over and gently interrupts, “Pardon me, but might I speak to His Majesty for a moment?” He leads David away, grabs a glass of champagne from a tray, and shoves it into David’s hand, “Buck up there, tiger. The night is still young.” David drinks some champagne, “Yeah, I realize that.” Reinhardt, “Jack should be here.” David, “I’m not pressuring him-” Reinhardt interrupts, “You need Jack to be here,” He nods towards Lydia, “Look at that.” She looks radiantly beautiful in a sexy red dress, laughing and dazzling the people around her. Reinhardt, “You think an asshole like me could get people to like him just by being himself? Fuck no. Lydia’s a fucking goddess and a goddamn genius. People like me because they like her. I could have snagged a big-tittied bimbo no problem, and I’d look just like every other rich middle-aged asshole here. But no, I got something good.” David, “What does this have to-” Reinhardt interrupts again, “Lydia doesn’t need me. Not one bit. She’s hot, she’s smart, and she’s rich on her own. She could have a lineup of men, and she chose me. Look at the men she’s talking to.” Lydia chats radiantly with a group of older men and their young trophy spouses (including the twink David was talking to earlier). Reinhardt, “They’re all afraid of a partner who equals them. They all have to be the guy in charge. They can’t stand being challenged. They’re all cowards and they know it. Come at them with a spouse who knows better than you, they’re all shitting their pants. They will listen to you.” David, "Are you giving me advice?” Reinhardt, “You want to be a good king, don’t you?

Elsewhere, Andrew approaches Adam, “Not surprised to see you again.” Adam, uncomfortable, “Good evening.” Andrew, "Are you here by yourself?” Adam, “Liam got me a date. I don’t know where she went.” Andrew, “Oh, come on, you can have your choice of women. You deserve better.“ He glances over to where David chats with Reinhardt, "I see our king has made good friends with Caesar Reinhardt.” Adam, “Yeah, he’s minister of defense. I get a lot of briefings from him.” Andrew, sneakily, “You know, I really shouldn’t tell you this.” Adam, “Tell me what?” Andrew, “OMGossip is investigating him.” Adam, “I- I know he was head of the MSS.“ Andrew, "Well, I suppose you do owe a lot to him. He ordered the raid at Nob.” Adam Doesn’t say anything. Andrew leans in, “He sent troops directly to Leo and Nora Levinson’s home with explicit orders, kill anyone you find there.” Adam, “How do you know?“ Andrew, “I have my sources,” He grins, “Some even in the palace.” Adam, “I should report that to David.” Andrew, “Will you?” Adam doesn’t say anything. Andrew, “Of course, Reinhardt was also behind the list of names that King Silas read off. He put it together knowing they would all be sent to their deaths.” Adam stares at Reinhardt. Andrew, “I would like to know something, and you can tell me.” Adam glances at him. Andrew, “You and Ryan Hitt were fighting him in the MSS building, weren’t you?” Adam, softly, “Yeah?” Andrew, “Did he kill Hitt?” Adam doesn’t say anything. Andrew, “I have a lot of questions about how Hitt died.” Adam, “It wasn’t Reinhardt. Ryan jumped in a line of fire so we could get to Reinhardt.” Andrew looks at David and Reinhardt buddied up together. Andrew, “What a waste,” he lowers his voice, leaning in close to Adam, “I think you know as well as I do that King David isn’t the reformer he claims to be. How free can Gilboa be when people like Caesar Reinhardt are not only still in charge, but in good standing with the king?” Adam stares at David and Reinhardt. Adam stares at David and Reinhardt. Andrew, “There’s one other thing I simply can’t stop thinking about.” Adam, “What?” Andrew, “The girl, the one who sat next to you at Council.” Adam, “What about her?” Andrew, “Her reaction was far more emotional than everyone else around her. No one else stormed out like that. Who was she?” Adam doesn’t say anything. Andrew, “I saw you talking to her. You must know her name.” Adam, “It’s nothing. She- she lost someone. She was upset because of that.” Andrew sneers condescendingly “Still loyal, I see.”

Back with David and Reinhardt, David’s phone buzzes. He takes it out of his pocket and looks at it. On the screen, a text: “from JACK: need you.” Reinhardt, “What is it?” David put his phone back in his pocket, “Nothing you need to know about. I have to tend to something.”

David goes into the residence, where Jack sits comfortably on the sofa. David, “What’s wrong?” Jack, “Nothing.” David, “Then why’d you call me up here?” Jack, “You need a break.” David sigh and sits down, “How did you know?” Jack, “It’s been an hour.” David laughs, “I guess you’d know what these events are like, huh? How’d you get through them before?” Jack, “Sex and booze.” David, “I have never gotten this many indecent proposals in my life.” Jack laughs, “You’re king!” David, “And you know what the worst part is?” Jack, “What?” David, “I can’t tell if I keep getting invited to three-ways because I’m king, or because I’m bi.” Jack throws his head back with laughter. David gazes at him adoringly. David, “Reinhardt says you should be down there. I think he’s trying to teach me how to power couple.” Jack rolls his eyes. David shrugs, “He’s not wrong. He says you make me look good.” Jack, “You look good. A-already. You already look good.” David, “Nah, it’s deeper than that. Reinhardt was mostly bragging about his wife, but I think the point was that I can be much more impressive and influential with you next to me. I like that idea.” Jack, “I’m not ready.“ David, quietly reassuring, "Keep at your therapy. You’ll be ready.” He squeezes Jack’s hand. Jack smiles a little bit. David sighs, “I should get going back. Thanks for calling me up here.” Jack, “You’re welcome.” David sends up, “Don’t wait up for me, okay? Go to bed when you feel tired.” Jack, “Okay.” David leans in and kisses Jack’s cheek, “I love you.”

Back in the ballroom, Andrew looks down at his phone, and grins wickedly.

Elsewhere, David goes back up to Jessie, who chats with a pretty young woman. David, to Jessie, “Hey, how are you holding up?” Jessie, “I’m wonderful, I was just talking to this lovely young lady who says she met you at the palace once before you were king.“ David, “You’ll have to forgive me, I met a lot of people in those days. What’s your name?” Lady, “Lucinda Wolfson.” David can’t place the name. Lady, “I went on a date with Jack and he brought me back to the palace. You were there with King Silas.” David recognizes her, “Oh, yeah, Lulu, I remember you! That was actually a very memorable night for me.” Jessie looks over at someone, “Oh, David, I think there’s someone Rose said she wanted you to meet.” David, “Uh, can you go talk to them for me? I’d kind of like to chat with Miss Wolfson.” Lucinda, “Ms. Caro, now. I’m not sure where my husband is.” She looks around. Jessie, “Okay, you two have a good chat.” She leaves. David heaves an uncomfortable sigh, “I’m the one with the crown, but Mom’s much better at being royal than I am.” Lucinda laughs, “Yeah, I keep thinking that if I’d married Jack, this would be my life.” David, “Yeah, I kind of screwed you over there.” Lucinda smiles kindly, “How is Jack? Our date ended badly, but I’ve always wished him well. I was kind of disappointed to hear he’s not here tonight.” David, “Actually that date ended extremely well for Jack, and for me!” Lucinda, “Really?” David, “Yeah, that was a very memorable evening. Jack’s doing great, actually.” Lucinda, “That’s so wonderful.” David, “Yeah, he just doesn’t quite feel like he’s ready for social events yet. He’s been through a lot, but, still, somehow, he’s got a long way to go.” Lucinda, “Give him my regards.” She looks over at the large picture of David in Damascus, and they both stare at it for a long, quiet moment. Lucinda, “You know, for a while, I was really scared about all this revolution business. I mean, I’m a historian, and I know that revolutions rarely end well. I wanted to root for you, but I was scared of how it would end. And then I saw that picture. I just- I knew that you’d be an exception to history.” David, “I hate that picture. What happened in Damascus was just… awful.” Lucinda, “Whatever happened there… that picture got a lot of people on your side.” Rose approaches David, “David, I have someone I’d like for you to meet.” Lucinda, “Good evening, your majesty.” Rose looks at Lucinda and recognizes her, “Miss Wolfson, how nice to see you. If you’ll excuse me, I have to introduce David to someone.” He puts her hands on his shoulders and begins to move him away. David, “Have a nice evening.” Lucinda, “You too.” Rose leads David to a woman, “This is Eloise Houben, she’s a major trader in fuel subsidies.” David extends his hand, “It’s nice to meet you.” Eloise, “Pleasure to meet you, your majesty. I’m interested in how the peace with Ammon has affected the oil trade- has the market been opened up?” Rose’s phone buzzes, and she looks down at it. David, “Uh, you should try talking to Abigail Benjamin-Hatch, she’s the one who loves that shit.” Rose, “David, can I speak to you aside for a moment?” David, “Sure,” he looks back over at Eloise, “Nice to meet you.” Rose leads him to a place away from other people. David, “What is it?” Rose, “Something else leaked.” David, “Oh, God, is it another sex tape?” Rose, “No, it’s-” she sighs heavily, “It’s a picture of Jack in the hospital.” She raises his phone for him, and on the screen is a picture of Jack, head shaved, wounds uncovered, face swollen, hooked up to a respirator. David tries to swallow his fury, “Is that OMGossip?” Rose, “Yes.” David looks around and sees Andrew staring at him in the crowd. Andrew sees him staring, and grins evilly. David nods, “Find Abby, Shay, Joel, and Reinhardt, and tell them to meet me in my office.” He walks straight toward Andrew, who has Chloe and Christine beside him. Adam watches David pass him. Andrew gives David a simpering smile, “Your majesty. So nice of you to finally talk to me tonight.” David, “I would like to speak to you somewhere privately.” Andrew, “I would be delighted.” They make their way towards a door. Adam sees it all and follows.

In a large, empty hallway, Christine, Chloe and Adam stand on the sidelines while David confronts Andrew. David, raging, “You agreed that you would leave Jack alone!” Adam frantically searches on his phone. Andrew, “It’s not personal, it’s journalism.” David, “You run a fucking gossip site!” Behind everyone, Rose enters with Abby, Michelle, Shay, Joel, and Reinhardt. They see David screaming and rush towards him. Shay, “David!” She goes up to him and puts her hand on his shoulder, “What’s wrong?” David, “Did you see the pictures he fucking posted?” Chloe looks over at Adam’s phone and sees the pictures of Jack. She gasps loudly and covers her mouth with her hands. Michelle and Rose on Abby’s phone. Abby’s jaw drops.. Michelle covers her mouth, and Rose fights back tears. Reinhardt steps up, “What is your source for these?” Andrew, “The source is confidential.” Reinhardt, “The prince was kept under 24 hour secure guard! How his room was infiltrated is an issue of national security!” Andrew, “You aren’t in charge of the MSS any more.” Michelle, genuinely hurt, holding back tears, “Why would you do this, Andrew? Why would you be this fucking petty?” Andrew, “Do you really want to know?” he rolls his eyes, “Given Jack’s dilettante history, people deserve to know that Jack isn’t exaggerating his injury.” David, “He’s not faking!” Michelle, “He has metal plates in his skull! I watched them put them in!” David, “I watched him get shot!” Andrew, “He attended the wedding reception where he was the center of attention, but not a royal even where he’s not.” Rose, “These are very different events.” Andrew, “Jack has always wanted the luxury and acclaim of being royal without the responsibilities of being royal.” David, “You don’t know him!” Andrew, “I’ve known him longer than you have.” David snaps and punches Andrew. Chloe screams while Shay tries to restrain David. She pulls him back. Andrew wipes at his bleeding nose, and seeing the blood on his fingers, sneers and says, “Afraid of the press and afraid of the truth, no different than Silas!” David lunges forward, pummeling Andrew. Reinhardt, Joel and Shay all grab him and struggle to pull him back. When he can no longer punch, David continues to kick and stomp at Andrew. Chloe and Christine rush over to Andrew. Reinhardt bellows orders, “Get him to his office!“ Abby and Michelle hurry off while Shay and Joel pulls David away. Christine helps Andrew up, “Come on, let’s go.” She hurries him and Chloe away. Adam and Rose are left standing there, and they stare at each other awkwardly. Rose, “I have to get back to the party.” She hurries off. Adam stands there, alone.

In David’s office, Shay and Joel push David into his seat while Abby and Michelle stand back and Reinhardt steps up to the desk. David fuming, “How the fuck did this happen, Caesar? You told me he was under guard!” Abby, “David, that is not the issue right now!” David, "Yes it fucking is! I want to know how those fucking pictures were taken and I want to know how Andrew Ceros got them!” Reinhardt, trying to stay calm, “Jack was under guard.” David, snapping, “Then how the fuck did a Gath spy get so close he could’ve unplugged his life support?!” Reinhardt, “We don’t know for sure it was a spy.” David, “How the fuck is this not Gath?! We are not letting them do this!” Abby, “What do you want to do, David?” David, “What can I do?” Shay, “You want me to mount an attack? Start an invasion? If we do that, I gotta say, Shaw’s definitely baiting you, here. He wants you to attack.” Joel, “Just give me the word, man, we can shut that fucker down completely.” Reinhardt calmly, “Not under the declaration of rights! Before we do anything, there needs to be an investigation. It could take a while.” David, “I don’t want to wait.” Reinhardt, “If an investigation finds evidence that Cross has been receiving information from Gath, it becomes a matter of national security, and we can shut them down.” David, “What are we gonna do when we find all that?” Abby, “First of all, I can demand an apology.” David, “I don’t want a fucking apology!” Abby, “Then what the do you want? Do you want to go to war?” David “I don’t know!” Abby, “This can be handled diplomatically, okay? But I can’t just go out right now and get an audience with Shaw and his diplomats. We have to at least wait until tomorrow.” Reinhardt, “And we still need evidence.” David, “It is them!” Reinhardt, “I know, but without evidence, they’ll just deny everything.” David, “Shit!” Michelle, “Andrew does this, David. He picks at old wounds. He wants to see you hurt.” Shay, “Yeah, Shaw is also a big fan of the mind games. Gath has never had real military superiority, so that’s what they rely on to keep Gilboa tied up.” David, “So what should I do right now?” Everyone looks at each other awkwardly. Reinhardt, “Go and wrap up this event. Pick everything up tomorrow.” David, bitterly, “Fine.” Reinhardt, “I’ll get the investigation going.”

In the back of the Cross limo, Andrew holds a was of tissues to his nose with one hand and an ice pack to his cheek with the other. Chloe, “You fucking deserved it, you know.” Christine, “Like father, like son. He’s not the first Cross man to get punched by the king of Gilboa at a palace event.” Andrew, “This is not about Dad!” Christine, “Everything is.” Andrew’s phone buzzes. He looks at it and sees ADAM SOLANO on the screen. He answers, “Yes?” In a hallway, Adam rushes to speak, “Beth Sabbatino. Her name is Beth Sabbatino. She was Ryan Hitt’s girlfriend, and she kind of got- I dunno, close to David. I don’t- she said nothing was going on, but, I- I dunno.” Andrew, “You don’t know what a great service you just did for your country. Thank you.”

David stands in an isolated, hidden spot where he can look into ballroom. He leans pensively against the wall and stares at the picture of him in Damascus. partygoers still gather around and admire it, completely unaware of what just transpired. Reinhardt approaches him, “Everything’s in motion. Well find out where the pictures came from.” David, “Thanks. I’m sorry for yelling at you. I just… I knew Jack was on life support, but to actually see it…” He takes a deep shaking breath and chokes up, “He was hurt so bad, and I wasn’t there with him.” Reinhardt, “Do you need anything?” David stares at the glittering party, “I suck at this event shit. I don’t know what to do around all these society people, and they can tell I’m in over my head.” Reinhardt, “I was been watching you all evening, you were actually doing pretty well until the Cross shit happened. It’s only your first event as king, and it took me a hell of a lot more than just one to get used to it.” David looks down at his bruised knuckles, “God, I’m a fucking mess. How long do you think it’ll take for them to realize that I have no idea what the fuck I’m doing? When do you think they’ll realize I’ve been faking it all along?” Reinhardt, “David, right now, I’m going to stop speaking as your minister of defense and start speaking as someone whose personal ambitions you thwarted. Before you blew up that tank, I was doing absolutely fucking great. I spent years doing everything I could to get close to the crown, I even thought that if I played my cards right, I could be king. I was a beloved hero, I was the youngest minster, and I was poised to be Silas’s chosen successor. And then you came along and fucked that all in the ass!” David, “I didn’t mean to.” Reinhardt, “That’s the worst fucking part! You did it all without even trying!” he points to the crowd in the ballroom, “When I look out there, I see a fuckload of people who used to think they had their life locked down, who felt like they had everything under control, but that all got shot to hell. Now, they’re out there trying desperately to re-gain the position and security they once had. They need a king to tell them who they fucking are and what they fucking do, and guess what, asshole! That’s you!” David looks at him, and Reinhardt takes a moment to compose himself, “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have spoken so rashly. It’s just god fucking damnit, you’re good at this shit! I have struggled so much just to be half as good at it as you are! You’ve got everything that I want, everything that a lot of people want, and you have the fucking gall to just wallow in self-pity and say you aren’t a leader!” David looks out over the oversize pictures of him: blowing up the tank, inciting a rebellion against Silas, in Damascus, fighting Amalekites in the Western Mall, declaring war against Abner, standing on the balcony of the palace after the coup. David, “Go home. We have a lot of work tomorrow.”

[roseisread]

My Year in Movies: Favorite Non-2018 Feature Films (Part 2)

Continuing the countdown of my favorite movies I saw for the first time in 2018 that were released in previous years... for part 1 of this list, click here.

39. Tokyo Drifter (1966, directed by Seijun Suzuki, country of origin: Japan)

Seijun Suzuki pulls together his favorite tropes from the Western, film noir, and Yakuza genres and throws a post modern, new wave sensibility on top complete with lots of neon and surrealism. The end result is one of the most stylistically bold movies I’ve ever encountered, and its influence extends to modern auteurs like Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, and Nicolas Winding Refn. Tokyo Drifter (which has nothing to do with the Fast & Furious franchise as far as I know) follows a gangster on the run, but the plot really is secondary to the overall feel of the movie. Really fun and one I can imagine revisiting a lot just for its aesthetic choices and action set pieces. Rent it on Amazon Prime; in the meantime, here’s a pretty decent fan-made trailer.

38. Born to Kill (1947, directed by Robert Wise, country of origin: US)

Hollywood’s original bad boy Lawrence Tierney stars in this nasty little noir that fully lives up to its violent title. Sam Wilde (Tierney) is a gorgeous, amoral social climber who doesn’t let a little trifle like murder stand in the way of getting what he wants. Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) finds herself strangely drawn to him, even as she learns of his criminal leanings. There’s a particularly lustful scene between Sam and Helen that could be a direct influence on Natural Born Killers, actually. The fact that this picture was directed by Robert Wise, best known for his work on The Sound of Music and West Side Story, makes it all the more interesting--this pulpy film doesn’t have any musical numbers but it certainly is well-crafted and choreographed. If you love a good antihero, you owe it to yourself to watch this. Available for rent on Amazon, YouTube, and Vudu. 

37. Throw Momma From the Train (1987, directed by Danny DeVito, country of origin: US)

This comic riff on Strangers on a Train starts off with murder on its mind, but there’s a surprising sweetness lying just below the surface. I’m sure most people have already seen this film but in case you haven’t, you’re in for a hilarious and endearing story that showcases peak Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito. Anne Ramsey plays the titular “Momma,” and she was nominated for both the Oscars and the Golden Globes in this supporting role. There are lots of ways to watch this movie for free, including Amazon Prime, YouTube, Vudu, GooglePlay, and Showtime. 

36. Johnny Guitar (1954, directed by Nicholas Ray, country of origin: US)

The title refers to Sterling Hayden’s outlaw cowboy, but the real star of the show is Joan Crawford as Vienna: a saloon owning, jeans wearing, piano playing woman who takes on the whole town in a showdown. Portrayals of women in Westerns vary, but few emanate such power and self-assuredness as Vienna. 

Another woman, tellingly named Emma Small (played by Mercedes McCambridge), has set her sights on getting rid of Vienna and her establishment once and for all, and she will stop at no amount of violence or trickery to make it happen. So basically this is Mean Girls but in the Wild West. Offscreen, Joan Crawford was hooking up with director Nicholas Ray; and she’d previously been romantically involved with McCambridge’s now-husband. Both ladies also consumed a fair amount of booze while filming. This led to their rivalry bleeding into real life, and perhaps added to the tension we see on screen between the two. 

This movie didn’t have the warmest reception when it premiered stateside (Bosley Crowther on Crawford’s Vienna: “...as sexless as the lions on the public library steps and as sharp and romantically forbidding as a package of unwrapped razor blades.”) But European audiences devoured it, and it became beloved of people like Francois Truffaut who saw it as a major influence. You can watch it now on Hulu or rent from a number of streaming platforms. 

35. Sonatine (1993, directed by Takeshi “Beat” Kitano, country of origin: Japan)

Takeshi Kitano wrote, directed, and starred in this cult take on Yakuza films. In it, he plays Murakawa, a gangster who dispatches (often in creatively cruel ways) anyone his bosses happen to dislike. But he’s starting to grow weary of this way of life when he gets sent on a new assignment that has him mediating a dispute with a rival gang in Okinawa. He suspects that he may be the real target, but goes along with the order. While hiding out between confrontations, Murakawa and a batch of young recruits find ways to pass the time--shooting cans off each other’s heads, playing a roulette version of rock paper scissors, pretending to be sumo wrestlers, and more. 

There’s not a lot of dialogue here, and Kitano plays his character with a stoicism that Buster Keaton and Alain Delon no doubt influenced. But the poetry and emotion are all in the action (and inaction) on screen. Here is a man whose main accomplishments are surviving bloody shootouts and racking up the body count for his employer--no wonder he hallucinates about self-destruction and walks the beach in a daze. There’s actually a good bit of comedy here too, as the movie isn’t afraid to veer into cartoonish moments and satirize the very genre it portrays. I also have to specifically call out the action scenes, especially one near the end--completely memorable, unique, and gorgeously shot. Watch this via rental on Amazon, YouTube, and GooglePlay--especially if you’re a fan of movies like Drive, Kill Bill, or Le Samourai. 

34. Metropolitan (1990, directed by Whit Stillman, country of origin: US)

My first encounter with Whit Stillman came via 2016′s Love and Friendship, his adaptation of a Jane Austen story. When his debut film appeared on Filmstruck, I realized what a perfect fit Austen and Stillman really are. This movie follows a group of (mostly) wealthy teenagers in Manhattan, who attend debutante balls and gather at each other’s homes for long pretentious conversations and romantic sparring. If Austen were alive today, no doubt she would have written a novel in the same setting, filled with the same biting wit (no pun intended) that Stillman displays. If you like your movies with a lot of action and plot twists, this may not be your cup of tea; but if you enjoy the works of, say, Woody Allen/Noah Baumbach/Wes Anderson then you will definitely find this a subtle delight. No big names amongst the cast; and many of them only did one or two other projects after this, but I think that adds to the feeling of naïveté and naturalism. Random observation, but when I watched this movie I found connections between a number of its characters and the cast of The Breakfast Club--see if you agree. Right now you can rent this via iTunes, and since it takes place around Christmas and New Year’s, this would be a great time to watch. 

33. Radio Days (1987, directed by Woody Allen, country of origin: US)

This might be the sweetest, least cynical movie in Woody Allen’s filmography. It’s a love letter to the 1930s and 40s, when families would gather around the radio (rather than the TV) for music, serials, and news of the outside world. Seth Green plays the Woody stand-in as a child, Mia Farrow plays an aspiring radio actress, Larry David pops up as the Communist next door neighbor--it’s a real hoot. The music (from the likes of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Glenn Miller) is gorgeous and it’s fun to see old New York recreated for this film. Suitable for all ages and utterly delightful, you can watch it on Hulu with a subscription or rent it on Vudu for $2.99. 

32. Pickup (1951, directed by Hugo Haas, country of origin: US)

I caught up with this low-budget B-movie noir during Noir City Chicago, and fell head over heels for it. The director plays the lead character, a lovable but lonely railroad worker named Hunky (he does not live up to this name in appearance). When he encounters the gorgeous and sassy Betty (Beverly Michaels) at a carnival, he can’t believe a guy like him could hold the romantic interest of such a hottie. As luck would have it, though, she’s more attracted to his life savings than to him. What a golddigger. What sets this movie apart is the addition of a little plot twist: Hunky loses his hearing in an accident, which is just fine by the conniving Betty who can now scheme and talk trash around her husband. But when Hunky’s hearing unexpectedly returns, he doesn’t tell anyone and discovers that his beloved wifey is plotting his demise. Bonus: There’s a pretty adorable puppy in the mix. This isn’t available on DVD, sadly, but someone has uploaded it to YouTube and if you have 77 minutes to kill, I recommend checking it out.

31. Ghost (1990, directed by Jerry Zucker, country of origin: US)

Look, I love Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Swayze just as much as the next person, but for some reason I had always assumed that Ghost was this really cheesy paranormal romance. Wrong! It’s a charming murder mystery with some legit scary moments a lot of comedy, and, yes, some romance too. So if you have somehow missed this gem, you can catch up with it for 99 cents right now on Amazon or rent it for a Few Dollars More on other streaming sites.

30. One False Move (1992, directed by Carl Franklin, country of origin: US)

In part one of this list, I mentioned watching multiple Bill Paxton movies in 2018. This one features Paxton as a small town sheriff with illusions of grandeur--instead of settling small time domestic disputes, he’d love to one day solve murders and thwart serial killers and arrest drug kingpins in the big city. He gets his chance to do something bigger when a car full of murderous fugitives rolls into town. The LA detectives on the case don’t quite know what to make of Paxton; but he views them as heroes. When he gets his chance to show them what he’s made of, he doesn’t flinch. 

Billy Bob Thornton co-wrote the screenplay and co-stars in the film, another connection between this and the other Paxton entry on my list (A Simple Plan). Here, he’s a vile and brutal sociopath (a role he’d go on to play in the TV adaptation of Fargo), with a girlfriend named Fantasia (Cynda Williams) that might be having second thoughts about their relationship. Director Carl Franklin is perhaps better known for the Denzel Washington neo noir Devil in a Blue Dress; and Franklin himself introduced a double feature of these two films at Noir City Chicago. He’s a brilliant, economical director with a deep well of classical film knowledge and a knack for capturing defining character traits in the space of a few frames. Rent this movie on Amazon, Vudu, or YouTube and prepare for a gritty, moving ride. 

29. Peeping Tom (1960, directed by Michael Powell, country of origin: England)

I caught up with this out of print masterpiece (purchased at my local library sale for 50 cents on Criterion DVD!) during my October horror viewing, and immediately wanted it to find a wider audience. Reviled upon its initial release, it follows a talented but troubled young filmmaker whose obsession involves recording the final moments of his murder victims’ lives, as they realize their fate. Pretty twisted, I know. The exploration of voyeurism and the relationship between the camera, its subjects, and an audience really make this a fascinating watch, both from a technical perspective and as a critique of moviemaking and consumption. One can’t help but see the influence this movie has had on horror filmmakers from Wes Craven to John Carpenter, particularly in the way it forces us to identify with the psychologically damaged killer instead of centering the narrative on his victims. Massively underrated, and deserving of your attention if you consider yourself a fan of horror movies. Watch it via rental on a number of streaming platforms. 

That concludes part 2 of the list! Stay tuned for the next segment, coming soon! 

[ljones41]

"PROMETHEUS" (2012) Review

"PROMETHEUS" (2012) Review When I first saw the trailer for director Ridley Scott's 2012 science-fiction thriller, "PROMETHEUS", I had no desire to see it. For me, it looked like another "alien in the spaceship" thriller that I have ignored for years. But after some persistent urging from a relative of mine, I finally saw it in the theaters. 

According to Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan and cultural hero who is believed to be responsible for the creation of man from clay. He also is also responsible for the theft of fire for human use, which enabled the latter to enjoy progress and civilization. Zeus punished Prometheus for the theft by sentencing the Tital to eternal torment. Zeus bounded Prometheus to rock, transformed to an eagle each day to feed on Prometheus' liver. The latter would grow back and the eagle would feed on it again . . . day after day after day. What does this have to do with the movie, "PROMETHEUS"? Honestly, I do not know. I am not of the intellectual variety. Then again, I hear that Prometheus' story is supposed to be a metaphor for human striving and quest for scientific knowledge, at the risk of unintended consequences. Hmmm. Now I understand why the filmmakers used this name. Set in the late 21st century, "PROMETHEUS" is about the crew of the starship Prometheus that follows a star map discovered among the remnants of several ancient Earth cultures. Led to a distant world and an advanced civilization, the crew seeks the origins of humanity, but instead discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human race. Although some members of the cast claim otherwise, it has been confirmed that "PROMETHEUS" was developed as far back as the early 2000s as a fifth entry in the ALIEN franchise, with both Scott and director James Cameron developing ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film, "ALIEN". The project remained dormant until 2009, when Scott again became interested. A script by Jon Spaihts served as a prequel to the events of the ALIEN movies. However, Scott chose a different direction for the movie, in order to avoid repeating the storylines of the past films. He recruited "LOST" producer/writer Damon Lindelof to co-write a new script with Spaihts. They created a story in which Scott claimed is not directly connected to the ALIEN franchise. The movie began with a humanoid alien drinks a dark bubbling liquid, and then starts to disintegrate. As its bodily remains cascade into a waterfall, the alien's DNA triggers a biogenetic reaction. The story jumps to the year 2089, when archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover a star map among several unconnected ancient cultures. The pair believes the maps are invitations from humanity's creators or "Engineers". Peter Weyland, the aging CEO of Weyland Corporation, funds the scientific vessel Prometheus to follow the map. The ship's crew travels in stasis while the android David monitors their voyage, until they arrive at Moon LV-223. Mission director Meredith Vickers orders them to avoid making contact with any of the "Engineers" without her permission. The Prometheus lands near a large artificial structure, which a team explores. The expedition team manages to find an alien corpse and believe it to be an "Engineer". Their expedition takes an ugly turn they discover that the "Engineers" and other life forms on the moon prove to be a lot more dangerous than they had imagined. After my family and I watched the last reel of "PROMETHEUS", the relative who had convinced me to see the movie leaned over and offered her apologies. She even offered to reimburse me for my movie ticket. Why? Because I discovered that my original reluctance to see the movie had been justified. I disliked "PROMETHEUS". Wholeheartedly. It turned out to be the kind of the movie that I usually dislike. Not only did it turned out to be the typical science-fiction horror film that usually turned me off, I found the movie's intellectual aspects of the plot pretentious and incomplete. Were there any aspects of "PROMETHEUS" that I liked? Well . . . the entire cast gave solid performances, aside from some questionable accents from at least two of the cast members. I cannot deny that Dariusz Wolski's photography was breathtaking. Or that Pietro Scalia's editing was first rate. And Ridley Scott did a great job in maintaining a steady pace for the movie, despite its 124 minutes running time. Other than that . . . there was nothing else about this film that impressed me. I have few questions. Why did Elizabeth Shaw assume that the aliens who had created the star maps, were creators of mankind? How did she come to this conclusion? Because she had "faith"? Who was she supposed to be? A second-rate John Locke? Or a metaphor of the Titan Prometheus? And how did she come to the conclusion near the end of the movie that the "Engineers" were out to destroy mankind, after . . . uh, creating them? And what is it about this crew that they make such stupid mistakes that end up endangering them? A good example would be the geologist Fifield and the biologist Milburn, who lacked the good sense to run for their lives after spotting the snake-like alien. And could someone please explain how Shaw managed to walk and run around both Prometheus and the moon so soon after giving herself a brutal abortion to rid herself of her alien spawn? I have one last question. Why on earth would Elizabeth (the crew's lone survivor) even bother traveling to the aliens' homeworld at the end of the movie, now that she believes they are out to destroy humankind? Was it so important to her to learn about the aliens' motives that she was willing to risk her life in such a stupid manner? Moviegoers raved over Michael Fassbender's performance as the android David. I was too busy feeling confused about the character to consider any accolades for the actor. Exactly how are we supposed to regard David? As another Data from "STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION"? Or as one of the replicants from another Scott film, 1982's "BLADE RUNNER"? At first, David seemed to be in thrall over human culture, Elizabeth Shaw and the moon in general. Yet, a reason that is never fully explained, he decided to spike Charlie Holloway's (Elizabeth's love interest and fellow archeologist) drink with a dark liquid he had found from one of the moon's stone cylinders. Why did he do that? Again, the movie failed to explain. Some critics were also in thrall over Idris Elba's performance as Prometheus' chief pilot, Janek. I was too busy wincing at his attempt to re-create some kind of African-American accent. He had managed to do this successfully in the 2010 movie, "THE LOSERS". What in the hell happened? As for Rafe Spall's Southern accent . . . frankly my dear, it sucked. I wish I could say that I liked "PROMETHEUS". But if I did, I would be lying. I did not like it one bit. The movie tried to be some kind of profound tale that would leave many moviegoers asking questions. And in a way it did. But my questions about the movie only reinforced my disenchantment with it. What is really sad about "PROMETHEUS" is that it is the first Ridley Scott movie that has disappointed me since the 2001 movie, "BLACK HAWK DOWN". Pity.

[gentlemanmendes]

Beauty and the Beast 2:

Part 1:

part 2:

Walking through the village seemed like walking through a foreign place. The villages no longer treated her the same, they wanted to do everything for her, always greeted her with a curtsy, and eyes followed her everywhere. It didn’t help having the royal guards follow her every where she went, Prince Shawn had wanted her protected at all times when he wasn’t around to protect her.

This had been happening in the last four months of their engagement and with only one month until the wedding and with every day that brought the wedding closer she felt herself regretting her decision more and more. She was no longer entitled to privacy and had her every move watched, it felt more like a hazard than a privilege to be future crowned queen and the prince was no help to that. Shawn was definitely not the person she had once known and the more she got to know the new Shawn the more she wondered whether the old Shawn was just a figure of her imagination. He was a power hungry spoilt brat who got everything he wanted when he wanted, not to mention the fact that he didn’t care about anyone but himself. He hadn’t even bothered putting any effort into his relationship with y/n, the only times she had seen him was at dinners she ate at the palace with the king and queen.

Although y/n spent practically all her time at the palace with the wedding planning and learning the names of the other royals and important figures in the land to how to dance for a ball and conduct herself in front of the public she still chose to go home to her mother. The queen had suggest that they both move into the palace and would have their own quarters until the wedding but y/n had declined the offer. Her home was the only place she felt normal even though she now had the palace guards secured all around her mother���s home.

Having had enough with all the attention in the public eye y/n jolted to a stop causing her ‘baby sitter’ to almost run into her. Demetrius, her personal guard,  apologized for his mistake, even though it was y/n who had cause it, with a bow.

“I have changed my mind, I would like fresh air elsewhere.” Y/n stated. “Take me to the stables.” She hated acting like a snob but the royal advisor had instructed her that she must act superior so then people believed her to be superior. She was already facing an obstacle by not having been born into the crown, she now had to demanded respect.

“But you are to meet with the prince for an afternoon walk around the palace grounds.” Demetrius informed y/n causing her to mentally roll her eyes, she hated those walks they were silently and agonizingly painful. Shawn didn’t care for her nor did she care for him, they only took this time because the queen instructed them too.  

“Then give him word I have changed my plans and he can meet me at the stables.” She huffed as she got into her carriage. Demetrius informed the footman of y/n’s change of plans before getting into the carriage with y/n.

Once he had gotten y/n to the palace stables safely he left to inform Shawn of y/n’s where about.

As y/n rode she was beginning to lose control, she would give the horse a light kick here and there telling it to go faster, for the first time in a long time she felt in control of something yet again. From the moment she had agreed to marry Shawn she had been told not only what to do but who to be and she had grown tired of it. She now understood why as a kid Shaw had hated the throne. At the time she had thought of him as foolish, he had everything at his face and he didn’t want it, but now she understood why. It was a nightmare. A prisoner would have more freedom than she did.

Being so distracted in her own thoughts y/n hadn’t realized just how fast or how uneasy the horse she was riding was and before she knew it she was on the ground and her horse was galloping off into the woods that surrounded the castle.

“Are you alright?” A voice called from behind y/n causing her to let out a huff. She couldn’t even fall off a horse in peace, of course she had to have someone watching her.

She pushed herself off the ground before her spectator could come to her rescue.

“I’m fine!” She huffed attempting to dust off the dirt and grass stains off the sleeves of her pink and white gown refusing to look up to see who was seated on the horse that had just approached her.

“Are you sure, that looked like a nasty fall.”  The stranger pressed causing y/n’s temper to rise.

“I said I’m fine!” but when she looked up to see who the stranger was she regretted raising her voice. “David.” She breathed out in surprise now looking away sheepishly, embarrassed by her actions. David had been one of y/n’s closest friends growing up. His father had been the stable boy and now it seemed he was following in his footsteps. Y/n had good memories with David, he had filled the void that Shawn’s silent absence had left. David was only a few years older than y/n and although neither had actually mentioned it both had developed feelings for one another and had someday hoped to marry. But someday was no longer an option.

“ I feel as though I have failed as a teacher.” David chuckled as he got off of his horse. He had been the one to teach y/n  how to ride a horse in the first place, although she had never been very good at it to begin with.  "Why don’t you take Matilda, and I shall walk with you.“ He suggested gesturing to his horse. Without agreeing y/n got onto Matilda  allowing David to take the reins and lead her back towards the stable where Shawn would eventually be waiting.

At first it was silent and awkward but nothing new to y/n considering that was how most moments spent with her prince and soon to be husband were. But David broke the silence remind y/n of the time that they went exploring in the woods less than three years ago, at the time she was convinced she wanted to run away and live a life as a bandit in the woods, scavenging for food and stealing for the rich also known as her now future in-laws. It seemed odd that less than a few years ago she was more than prepared to live a life like that but now she was living a life that was the exact opposite.

Being with David made her feel good, he didn’t treat her defiantly the way everyone else did. He treated her the same way he always had. It made her feel warm and at home. It also reminded her of why she had liked David so much but she hadn’t seen him since the proposal. She couldn’t help but wonder what David had thought once he had heard the news, was he upset, did he think less of y/n? She was curious but her pride had gotten the best of her, she refused to care what he thought. She would soon be royalty and no one’s opinion of her would matter.

When they arrived at the stable y/n was surprised not only to be met with Shawn but a furious Shawn at that. His mood only seemed to worsen at the sight of David but when David bowed he seemed to ease a bit as though he was being reminded that he was superior to the man that had rescued his damsel in distress.

"I received note that you had fallen off your horse, I trust the animal will be put down as soon as it is found and all troubles will be undone.” Shawn informed y/n causing her eyes to widen in horror.

“No!” She and David cried out in response causing Shawn’s scowl to surface once again.

“I beg your pardon?” He spat in disgust, “Remember who you are speaking with, both of you.”

“Pardon me you highness but the animal in innocent.” David said with his head bowed refusing to meet his princes gaze.

“Don’t you have a stable to attend to, I could very easily find someone to replace you.” He spat causing David to scurry off in embarrassment sending one last longing look at Y/n as he left.

“That horse did nothing wrong, it was my fault and I’m not even hurt.” Y/n justified ignoring Shawn’s previous statement. She wasn’t going to let an innocent animal die because of her stupidity.

When Shawn didn’t respond y/n turned her back on him and stormed off in disgust. She was going to marry this cruel monster in a month. He was going to be the father of her children. The thought appalled her. Her children deserved a loving father who cared for them the way hers once had before her had passed. Her father had been the most admirable man in her life, that was what she wanted for her children but they wouldn’t have that.

“Why do I get the feeling you don’t like me.” Shawn called out after her once they were far enough from the stable to be classified as alone. With that y/n stopped in her tracks and turned to face him.

“Because I don’t. I despise you with every ounce of my body!” She seethed furiously taking Shawn by surprise. Y/n had always been well behaved and shown Shawn nothing but respect when they were together. This side of her was something new to him.  "You are cruel, arrogant, and self absorbed. You will never be fit to be king.“ y/n felt relief speaking what she had been dying to say to him since the day after her proposed.  

"Really? That is what you think of me?” Shawn didn’t seem offended at all by y/n’s accusations.“Then answer one question why are you marrying me?” He smirked causing y/n’s glare only to deepen.

“Shouldn’t that question be mine to ask.” Y/n shot back causing Shawn to stare at her curiously as if to tell her to continue because he was interested in what she had to say. “You could have any girl in the kingdom, or any other kingdom for that matter. Princess are lined up for you and you went against your parents blessing and chose me. ” Y/n elaborated. “Why?”

“Because. You don’t want the riches, or the power, nor the status. I know you have never cared about any of that nonsense which brings us back to my question, why are you marrying me?” Shawn was still smiling. He was okay with the fact that y/n didn’t love him, nor was she marrying him for any reason. This was bringing him satisfaction and it was making her feel worse.

“If I answer your question will you answer one of mine?” She negotiated.

Shawn gave an easy nod while mumbling 'anything for you my bride’ giving a small bow that somehow brought more comfort to y/n. Like Shawn had mentioned, y/n didn’t care for power but seeing him bow even if it was of mockery brought her satisfaction.

“Foolishness.” She shrugged easily causing Shawn’s brows to crease together.

“Elaborate.” He instructed causing her to roll her eyes but proceed.

“I was foolish to believe that the boy I knew was still inside you, why else would you propose to me.”

“And why was that foolish?” Shawn wondered although his frown told y/n that he was not at all impressed with her answer.

“Because I was wrong, that kind boy has been taken over by a beast.” Y/n was walking on broken glass with her behavior but at this moment she didn’t seem to care. Hell to it if she lost it all, so what if the kingdom would frown upon her and the royals would make her life hard, she didn’t care anymore, she was miserable now. Whatever they did to her at least she would finally be free again.

Y/n could tell that this had infuriated Shawn but he didn’t act upon it.  Instead he spat out “What is your question.” As if he wanted this conversation to finally be over.

“Why did you stop meeting me?” Although y/n hadn’t elaborated Shawn knew exactly what she was implying which was only making his mood worse. The Prince was known for having a temper that even put his father’s temper to shame.

“As you noted my future queen.” Shawn smirked effortlessly causing y/n’s confidence to falter. “A beast came over me.” And with that Shawn turned on the balls of his feet and walked away proud of himself for not having given in to y/n.

“Burn in hell you monster!” y/ screamed after him causing Shawn to jolt to an abrupt stop, turning yet again he stalked towards y/n with a dangerous grin on his lips as he reached for her causing her to flinch away by instinct although he didn’t lay a hand on her the way  she had expected. Instead Shawn took her hand and snatched the ring off her finger surprising her. She had expected him to storm off as he previously had but he didn’t. He remained in the same position towering over her while he turned the ring over between his thumb and index finger in a teasing matter.

“No.” He gave a dry chuckle as the word escaped his lips. “I can put you through more misery if we are married.” Shawn snickered in realization as he shoved the ring back onto y/n’s finger, all the confidence she had previously felt now long gone. “And don’t even try to run or do anything that might jeopardize this marriage because if you do I will have your mothers heart.” He watched as the horror took over y/n’s face at his threat before he happily walked away leaving y/n dumbfounded and proud of himself.

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Cosplayer Bryce Matthews Ledward Costume, Alien: Covenant

Clara Fei-Fei/ @muthur9000 : Hi Bryce, thanks for being a part of our Fan Creatives series on Yutani Blog. Could you tell me which movie introduced you to the Alien Universe?

Bryce Matthews: Definitely Aliens! I was around 10 at the time when Aliens was on TV and was blown away. Being a 10-year-old boy, it has everything I wanted; guns, monsters and Sigourney Weaver. My dad is a huge fan of the Alien (and Predator) films so I just got on board after I saw he had the original 4 on VHS.

  CF: Who is your fav character in the Alien Universe?

BM: Hudson without a doubt. For his obvious one-liners and the fact that he’s completely relatable as an audience member. Can’t go wrong with Bill Paxton.

  CF: Why do you cosplay? Do you like to get into character when cosplaying?

BM: Growing up I had a huge collection of action figures and collectables from the Alien franchise. Last year I decided that I wanted to try and create a replica of one of the costumes from the films. It was more of a hobby that turned into Cosplay when my local Comic-Con came around.

Cosplayer Bryce Matthews Ledward Costume, Alien: Covenant

Cosplayer Bryce Matthews Ledward Costume, Alien: Covenant

CF: Have you cosplayed long? What was your first Cosplay?

BM: It was my first Cosplay actually! It was… interesting. Going in with no knowledge of where to start or how to make a lot of things resulted in a bunch of trial and error. Thankfully I had a lot of help from the guys over at The RPF and the Alien: Covenant Costume group on Facebook.

  CF: How do you feel about this cosplay, what was different about this one compared to past ones?

BM: I was really happy with how it turned out after I had so many issues tracking things down or making items, but it was worth it for the end result.

  CF: What aspects do you like about the costume? What part is your favourite?

BM: The fact that it was pretty casual with a military twist on it was really appealing to me, when I first started it I thought it was going to be relatively easy but also fun to put together. My favourite part of it would have to be the boots, even though they were a ready-made item, I just found them damn cool. They were a nightmare to walk in though.

Cosplayer Bryce Matthews Ledward Costume, Alien: Covenant

Cosplayer Bryce Matthews Ledward Costume, Alien: Covenant

CF: What was the hardest piece to acquire or create?

BM: The German Quilted Parka Liner. Not only was it an issued surplus item, it required a graphics to be printed on the sleeve. It was a type of ripstop fabric so incredibly difficult to do anything with. I tried iron transfer, fabric paint, vinyl decals but nothing would stick to it. I ended up actually sourcing a bloke here in Melbourne who worked from home that screen printed on it which turned out amazing.

  CF: How long did it take you to put this one together?

BM: Overall it took me close to 10 months on and off. Waiting for items in the mail and general budgeting for it.

  CF: How comfortable or heavy is it? What is the range of movement like?

BM: It was pretty comfortable as it’s just general wear minus the military vest. It had about 6 layers to it which gave it a decent weight. The range of movement was fine except for the boots, they’re motocross boots so definitely not made to be walking around Cons for a long time!

Bryce Matthews Ledward Cosplay, Alien: Covenant

Bryce Matthews Ledward Cosplay, Alien: Covenant

CF: What was the most expensive part of your costume?

BM: The belt. Well, it wasn’t actually a belt. It was a combination of a Martin-Baker ejection seat restraint (which was crazy expensive as is), a standard military belt, clothing labels purchased from one of the guys off The RPF and then I needed a leather stamp of the Weyland-Yutani logo which was custom made off ETSY and not cheap either. But it looked screen accurate when it was done so I was happy.

  CF: So did you like the movie? (alien covenant) What was your favourite part?

BM: I loved a majority of it. I ended up seeing it 4 times at the cinema and have probably seen it about 9 times altogether now. The whole infection/Neomorph back bursting scene, personally I think it’s one of the greatest sequences in the whole franchise. How it plays out so quickly and crazy was great.

  CF: If there was anything you could change about it what would it be?

BM: Having Shaw still a main or even supporting character would have been nice as she was so important in Prometheus. And the biology of the Xenomorph lifecycle, I understand that David was experimenting with the all that but the chestburster gestation and the design of the chestburster seemed really off to me.

Bryce Matthews Ledward Cosplay, Alien: Covenant

Bryce Matthews Ledward Cosplay, Alien: Covenant

CF: What do you think about the alien fandom?

BM: Being a sub on r/LV426, Aliens Legacy and a bunch of other online forums and seeing people from all over the world with different ages and backgrounds to why they love the franchise is really something.

  CF: If there’s anything you could change about the fandom what would it be?

BM: After all the help from the community after putting my Cosplay together, I don’t think I’d change a thing.

  CF: Will you be doing anything special for the 40th anniversary of alien next year?

BM: Hopefully, the Astor Theatre here in Melbourne will show Alien & Aliens back to back, I never pass up the opportunity to see them on the big screen again. But if not, I’ll be binge-watching all the films with my dad.

  CF: What costumes alien or other would you like to do in future?

BM: Hicks from Aliens. I’ve always loved the design of the Pulse Rifle and Hicks would be an obvious choice to helm it. I’ve started putting some things together already, hopefully, it’ll be ready for the next Con!

Thank you so much for the questions Clara, I had a blast answering them.

                  Fan Creatives: Bryce Matthews, Cosplayer Clara Fei-Fei/ @muthur9000 : Hi Bryce, thanks for being a part of our Fan Creatives series on Yutani Blog. 

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10 Western Media That Would Make Great Anime

When we anime fans tire of lamenting for the adaptation of manga after manga, or light novel after light novel, we tend to turn our imaginations away from Japan. After all, anime is no stranger to adapting western media. Many books, shows and movies have been adapted from western media into anime form, including Deltora Quest, Spider Riders, Witchblade, Howl’s Moving Castle, Highlander, and Supernatural just to name a few.

This got me thinking of my own wishlist of western media that would make great anime. Here are 10 shows, books, and movies that would make awesome anime adaptations.

  Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve Book Series - Dream Studio: Production I.G. - Dream Format: TV Anime

If you’ve never heard of Mortal Engines, no sweat. It’ll be your new favorite thing in no time. This YA quartet from British author Philip Reeve follows Tom, an apprentice historian atop the city of London. When he’s thrown out of the city, he sides with Hester Shaw, an assassin with the resistance after the life of his master, Thaddeus Valentine, who she blames for the death of her mother.

Sounds pretty run of the mill YA right? My bad. I forgot to mention all of the cities run on tractor wheels. Oh, and the cities eat other cities for resources. Oh, and there’s this huge conspiracy surrounding the city-eating cities, and this huge plot to destroy them. It’s cool that Peter Jackson’s directing a film adaptation of the series, which is due out this December, but just imagine this as an anime...

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling Book Series - Dream Studio: A-1 Pictures - Dream Format: TV Anime

Does Harry Potter really need an introduction? I feel like we all know about the boy who lived and his battle with he-who-shall-not-be-named. The cliffnotes version of Harry Potter is that an abused orphan turns out to have an incredible magical gift required to stop some of the wizarding world’s most malevolent forces. In addition to his studies, he must juggle fighting the dark forces, and maintaining the friendships he makes at Hogwarts.

  Harry Potter is essentially fantasy shonen in book format. It has the magical boarding school. It has the perfect shonen protagonist and sidekicks. The duels would be incredible to see animated. Hagrid would be moe AF. The mythical creatures would be a sight for sore eyes. But most importantly? QUIDDITCH EPISODES!

Railsea by China Miéville Novel - Dream Studio: Madhouse - Dream Format: Movie

China Mieville’s Railsea is an interesting reimagining of Moby Dick. Except instead of a sea, it’s a giant desert covered in endless, winding train tracks – the titular railsea. And there’s no whales. Only giant moles. The story follows Sham Yes ap Soorap, a young assistant doctor on a train that hunts giant moles for meat (think whaling but with moles). Her journey among the pirates, monsters, and salvagers alike kicks off when she comes across a series of photographs aboard a trainwreck that hint at the impossible existing.

The history behind the now-derelict world of Railsea, coupled with the mixture of gripping drama and havoc reminiscent of kaiju films, would make for a solid animated feature, the visuals of which I’d only trust to Madhouse.

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin Book Series - Dream Studio: MAPPA - Dream Format: Movies

Okay, so it’s Game of Thrones, but all the characters are moe idols. That’s it. That’s the show.

More seriously though, A Song of Ice and Fire would make a downright wicked fantasy anime. This large-scale fantasy epic has such an incredible assortment of characters, rich history, and gratuitous violence that would be a treat to see in anime form. It’s tough to really pinpoint the plot, since so much is going on, but A Song of Ice and Fire centers on a number of noble families – such as the Starks or Lannisters – vying to claim the throne of Westeros.

If there’s one studio out there that could handle A Song of Ice and Fire, it would be MAPPA. MAPPA’s history with dark fantasy anime series such as Rage of Bahamut or Garo only strengthens my confidence in their ability to breathe some animated life into the franchise.

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Novel - Dream Studio: SHAFT - Dream Format: TV Anime

You may know A Scanner Darkly from that weird rotoscoped movie where Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Woody Harrelson play a rag-tag group of friendly drug addicts. The movie itself was based on the Philip K. Dick book of the same name. It follows Bob Arctor, who lives parallel lives as both a drug addict and undercover police agent. Undercover agents report to their superiors in scramble suits, which scramble their identities. The kicker here is that Bob Arctor’s undercover gig? Spy on Bob Arctor.

The drug-addled, paranoia-fueled philosophy behind the day-to-day of drug addicts living in a world where the war on drugs was lost makes for an interesting dynamic, especially with the sci-fi enhanced police work behind it. The only studio I’d trust visually with this would be Shaft, if only to see drug-addict head tilts.

  Peep Show British Comedy Series - Dream Studio: Kyoto Animation - Dream Format: TV Anime

I know this sounds like a weird one, but stick with me. Peep Show is a British sitcom that follows mismatched flatmates Mark and Jeremy – Mark being the uptight 9-5er and Jeremy being the easy-going partier. They don’t always see eye to eye, but sometimes friendships need that. Sometimes Mark needs to loosen up a little. Sometimes Jeremy needs to grow up a bit. As long as they have each other, nothing bad can really go wrong, right? Well, as human nature would have it, things tend to go wrong – quite often, rather quickly.

KyoAni’s bread and butter tends to be slow-paced slice-of-life shows, so if any anime studio would revel in adapting a sitcom, it’d be them. The gimmick of Peep Show is that the camera angles don’t tend to be traditional, and often are shot from the direct view of Mark or Jeremy. It would be interesting to see how that worked in anime form.

Kitchen Nightmares Reality TV Series - Dream Studio: David Production - Dream Format: TV Anime

If Kitchen Nightmares were adapted into an anime, I think it’d probably be a lot like Food Wars!, but Gordon Ramsay yells at Soma every 5 minutes. More realistically, it would follow a rather manly Gordon Ramsay on his trek across Japan in search of crestfallen restaurants in desperate need of an upgrade. Now throw in some Jojo-styled manliness – the likes of which only David Production could replicate – and we have ourselves a recipe for the perfect anime.

The translation of Ramsay’s infamous potty mouth would be a peculiar one, but seeing a muscle-clad Gordon Ramsay faffing about a kitchen screaming oi, teme at the sous chefs would be a treat we could all sink our teeth into.

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Novel - Dream Studio: Wit Studio - Dream Format: Movie

There’s always room for more horror and suspense anime, ones about sentient walking plants doubly so. The book follows Bill Masen, a scientist who specializes in the care, study, and cultivation of triffids – towering venomous carnivores cultivated for their oils. After waking up from temporary blindness following a triffid strike, he finds everyone is now blind from green flashes brought on by comets the night prior. Now Bill must make his way through the streets of London in search of safety.

  While horticulture itself usually isn’t scary, there’s something eerily unsettling about the fact that poisonous man-eating plants walk the streets. Wit Studio would probably be the only studio which could replicate that suspense and terror, having done it perfectly in Attack on Titan and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress.

  Star Wars Sci-Fi Media Franchise - Dream Studio: Ufotable - Dream Format: TV Anime

With Ufotable’s success at adapting large scale media franchises such as Fate, this sci-fi space opera could be in no better hands. Anime is no stranger to the world’s 2nd largest media franchise either. There are loads of references to the movies in various anime and manga, including Daicon IV, Berserk, Gintama, Doraemon, and Princess Jellyfish, just to name a few. Some fans have gone as far as to draw parallels between the Jedi of Star Wars and Newtypes of Gundam (whether that’s intentional or a coincidence being how close the two were to releasing).

  The coming-of-age rebellion story, coupled with the gratuitous tie-fighter dogfights and lightsaber battles, would make for one show you’d be on the edge of your seat for week after week. I think each trilogy could probably be adapted in one cour, but at this point, I’d even take seeing Clone Wars reanimated in its entirety as long as Ufotable got their hands on it.

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Book Series - Dream Studio: Bones - Dream Format: Movies

From spaceship-stealing presidents to poetry-loving aliens, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a special charm that boys, girls, and little green people across the universe can love. It follows the incredibly British Arthur Dent, who in attempting to stop the demolition of his house, learns from his best friend Ford Prefect that the Earth is about to be demolished. After a few pints at the pub, the two hitch a ride on a ship and proceed on a journey through the stars in search of answers to life, the universe, and everything.

Anime has the unique marketability to sell just about anything. Look at Dr. Pepper sales after the first series of Steins;Gate aired back in 2011 after all. If the Japanese towel industry ever finds itself in a slump, anime studios know just what British science fiction series to adapt.

BONUS: King of the Hill Animated TV Series - Dream Studio: P.A. Works - Dream Format: TV Anime

You got that right: we’re doing a meme entry! King of the Hill has already claimed some notoriety in anime fandom as being one of the greatest anime of all time (if only second to Cory in the House).

King of the Hill follows the Hank Hill, his family, and their dysfunctional band of friends and neighbors as they navigate the challenges of daily life, propane, diminished glutes, lawnmowers, and more. Sometimes Hank’s modest sensibilities are challenged, but as a man of his word and a man of character, he never stands down.

While the closest we’ll probably ever get to a King of the Hill anime was the 1-hour episode where they went to Japan, we can only hope that one day, you’ll get a Crunchyroll notification that says “Release: King of the Hill - Episode 1”.

What about you folks? Got a favorite book, comic, TV series, or movie you want to see in anime form? Sound off in the comments below!

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  Zach Godin writes about the manga he reads and collects over at his website, Rusted Culture. Feel free to say hi on Twitter: @zachjgodin

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[ecsundance]

A very Long (yet very awesome) Week of Sundance

Organisers of Sundance say in Tryon’s discussion that “If a filmmaker wants to create his or her own idiosyncratic vision, it’s often not worth looking around for a big budget, waiting for others to say it’s okay to make it.  You have to stand up and make the film yourself…” (pg.164) and Kevin MacDonald in Tryon’s discussion talks about how basically all you need to make a movie is a laptop and a video camera, and how amazing it is that we live in a time which we can do this (pg.156)

This is similar to the idea that you can complain about not having enough time or experience to do something, but if you get over yourself and do it either you fail and learn, or you succeed and gain confidence.  If you have a great idea then nothing should hold you back from making it a reality.  Movies with billions of dollars behind them have fallen flat.  So it stands to reason that a movie made on weekends with only a couple bucks could be amazing.

According to Chuck Tryon’s discussion of “Reinvented Festivals” (pg. 160), because there are a lot more independent bloggers/critics now due to newspapers not hiring many, there is a consistent stream of new reviews being released even minutes after a film finishes premiering.  

Taking part in this class and festival and constantly thinking about what I thought about a film plays into this as I (along with my classmates) were some of the first to review some of these films.  It’s such a fun experience to think and talk about film as everyone will have various ways of perceiving and connecting to each film.

Favourite Film From the Festival

It feels hard to choose a favourite because there were so many incredible films which affected me in different ways like Coda, How it Ends, Flee, and honestly most of the films I saw in this year's festival . However, I fell in love with The World to Come when it wasn’t even a movie I initially planned on seeing.

The world to come felt like a poem. It made my heart ache deeply, marinating in feelings of melancholic love, and unexpected loss. Maybe it hit me especially hard because I lost one of the most amazing people I’ve ever had in my life along with family and pets (since they are family too) since the start of Covid: I have regrets and things I never got to say.  Maybe it’s because I’m fiercely fighting with my own identities right now.  Either way, it was hard to watch.  Parts of it still haunt me and still leave me breathless on the brink of tears.  It struck a chord in me which I have a hard time fully putting to words.  I didn’t originally even want to watch this film, it somehow ended up on my list of on demand films, and my mom convinced me to watch it (and I’m so glad she did).

It is a story which about two women which takes place in the 1800s, together in their loneliness who fall for each other behind their husbands’ backs.  They secretly rendezvous in the forest and tucked away corners of their homes when their husband’s are working.  It is beautiful in story and dialogue; it doesn’t get stale.  It feels modern somehow, though it is set in the 19th century, and I’m still processing it all to figure out why exactly.

Least Favorite Film from the Festival...

Eight for Silver by Sean Ellis wasn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it was certainly not the best;  I would not actively choose to watch this again.  It had interesting concepts such as only natural lighting being used throughout the film and those turned into the werewolf emerging, negatively changed, from the dead animal.  The movie would have gotten 4 stars rather than 3 from me simply by not having a CGI werewolf (unless it was so brilliantly terrifying and amazing it had to be shown) and by keeping the original plot of the Roma’s spells/curses (fueled from the massacre which the targeted village caused).  The scarecrow and buried teeth, and the strange dreams which followed were such a great piece, but they just fell away more and more.  The addition of the religious text (which mentions 30 pieces of silver is unnecessary, and just recycles old vampire movies/myth ) took this film from a great timepiece and cheapened it in combination with the subpar CGI creature, while also making it feel far too Hollywood in a bad way.  Again, some of the ideas, like the person within the wolf were great, but they could have kept it that way and not shown the monster otherwise.  

A list of All Feature Films I Saw:

During the 2021 Sundance film festival I have seen and rated the following:

Coda ***** Sian Heder

The story of a teenage hearing girl who wants to be a singer living with her otherwise deaf family who run a fishing boat.

Cryptozoo **** Dash Shaw

A woman’s attempt to protect mythical creatures in a world where everyone wants to harm them or use them as weapons.

Misha and the wolves ***** Sam Hobkinson

A chilling documentary about holocaust tale with a twist.

Users **** Natalia Amada

A mother’s view of the world, global warming, technology, her children and the relationship between all of this. 

Prisoners of Ghostland **** Sion Sono

Samurai meets the gunslinger Western World in this colourful action-horror (featuring Nicholas Cage). 

Censor **** Prano Bailey-Bond

The story of a woman whose sister disappeared as a child and how her job as a horror film censor helps her uncover the truth.

How it ends ***** Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones

A walk through the last day on Earth with a woman and her younger self as they make peace with their lives, relationships with others, and their own inner selves.

Strawberry Mansion ***** Dan Deacon

A dreamy/nightmarish surreal tale of a dream tax collector as he falls in love with the younger version of his client.

Cusp ***** Isabel Bethencourt, Parker Hill

A documentary on the lives of teen girls in Texas which delves into rape culture, poverty, and what it’s like to be a young woman.  

Eight for Silver *** Sean Ellis

Werewolf lore set in the 19th century. 

John and the Hole **** Pascual Sisto

A young teenage boy puts his family in a hole in the woods as he tries to deal with the stressors of being a kid and what adulthood holds, entwined with fable. 

R#J ***** Carey Williams 

A modern retelling of Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet through the age of social media, with a twist or two.

Coming Home in the Dark ***** James Ashcroft

A horror story of  a family who are abducted by two strangers who they later learn they share a deeper, darker history with. 

We’re All Going to The World’s Fair **** Jane Schoenbrun

A showing of loneliness and desperation through an online roleplaying game and it’s after effects.

First Date **** Manuel Crosby, Darren Knapp

A story of a first date gone VERY wrong.

The World to Come ***** Mona Fastvold

A 19th century story of the growing connection between two farmhouse wives.

Violation ***** Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli

A film about a woman’s trauma and how she… Deals with it.

Marvelous and the Black Hole ***** Kate Tsang

A story about how a young teen girl gets through the loss of her mother through forming a connection with a local magician.

The Blazing World ***** Carlson Young 

A traumatised young woman tries to bring her sister back from “the other side” but must really fight her own inner demons.

Mayday ***** Karen Cinorre

A story of a young woman overcoming trauma and fighting back against the man in a dreamlike state.

Night of the Kings **** Philippe Lacote 

A new storyteller is anointed in a prison run by its inmates and he must keep telling these stories until the moon sets to stay alive. (It helps to understand the specific culture more with this one, otherwise it sort of goes over your head.)

Life in a Day 2021 ***** Kavin Macdonald

A grounding compilation of scenes from across the world on the same day, July 25th, with scenes one after the other which either connect or contrasted in an impactful way.

Flee ***** Jonas Poher Rasmussen

A biography told through animation of a young gay immigrant. 

Short Films

Bj’s Mobile Gift Shop- Jason Park

A story of a young guy in Chicago who makes money to support himself and his grandparents by running a mobile gift shop out of a large suitcase.

Flex - Josefin Malmen, David Strindberg

A visual telling of a bodybuilder rubber-banding between insecurity and self obsession through surreal imagery and dialogue. 

The Affected- Rikke Gregersen

A retelling of a college student preventing the deportation of a man back to Afghanistan through the interactions of the bystanders.  

You Wouldn’t Understand- Trish Harnetiaux

A time-warp involving a picnic, a strange character looking for “horsey sauce” and a grocery store clerk armed with a food scanner.

Animations

Ghost Dogs- Joe Cappa 

A family's new dog is “haunted” by the family’s many deceased dogs in squishy colourful 90s/early 2000s style animated short. 

GNT- Sara Hirner, Rosemary Vasquez-Brown 

A woman obsessed with social media tries to make yeast infections popular.

Trepanation- Nick Flaherty

A showing of depression through a disturbing hole ridden entity emerging from a hole and taking the place of the house's owner. 

Little Miss Fate- Joder Von Rotz

A cleaning bird interrupts the fate of a couple going out on a date, leading to disastrous consequences.

Indie Series

I had really wanted to see Seeds of Deceit by Miriam Guttman and Would you Rather by Lise Akoka, (I tried viewing 4 Feet High by María Belén Poncio and Rosario Perazolo Masjoan but there was an issue which Sundance staff never got back to me about, sadly) but I ran out of time.  

However, I did see These Days by Adam Brookes which takes place in New York City during Covid, showing a young woman living alone and how she survives living alone and being unable to work as a dancer.  

New Frontier Experiences

Sadly, I kept thinking I’d have endless time.  I did not engage in the New Frontier experience except for in class on one occasion.  I think it was a great idea and fantastic opportunity and I regret not planning my time better for this specifically.

Talks or Events 

Ignite x Adobe featured shorts films from artists aged 18 to 25 and was very inspiring since I’m in the age range of these artists. 

A few I especially enjoyed were Vigincita, Personals, and Joychild (Although I honestly enjoyed the whole compilation).

Virgincita - A sexual coming of age/ look at mother daughter relationship mixed with religion.

Personals - A sexual encounter between two insecure individuals who find comfort with one another by the end.

Joychild - A documentary piece showing a child discovering and opening up about their gender identity. 

Q&As

I attended a few Q&As, but my favourite I believe was CODA’s.

They spoke about how they worked around language barriers and learned sign language before and throughout production.  Everyone just seemed at ease and like they had a great time in production of the film.

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Overall, I’m quite pleased with how this festival went virtually.  It was a truly amazing experience which I am so glad I was able to take part in.  It was as Immersive an experience as I think could be created virtually and seemed to go relatively smoothly for the most part for having it be the first time this has happened.  

I’m also extremely grateful for the inclusivity which allowed for those who may not be able to travel as easily due to disability, financial reasons, or anything else.  I don’t know if I’d have been able to go otherwise.  

This experience was more amazing than I even hoped it would be.  I feel so inspired that I plan to find out how to submit to Sundance so that I can possibly try to get a short film idea I have done for the short film/18-25 year old category.  I feel like I can actually do this now and I have so many new ideas. 

Thank you!

Tryon, Chuck,

On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies

,  Rutgers University Press, Copyright © 2013.

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Lois Smith’s Life Unfolds On Stage And Screen. In 2017, It’s All Paying Off.

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Lois Smith’s Life Unfolds On Stage And Screen. In 2017, It’s All Paying Off.

To talk to Lois Smith is to hear her professes, again and again, how “fortunate” and “lucky” she has been, almost as if everything in her career happened by chance.

At 87, Smith is closing the book on what may be the splashiest year of her seven-decade tenure in film and theater. In January, the big-screen adaptation of “Marjorie Prime” premiered at Sundance; Smith’s performance has since sparked Oscar buzz, collecting nominations from the Gotham Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards. Smith originated the role onstage, in Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play about an octogenarian conjuring memories from her life in the company of her late husband, who assumes the form of a computer-programmed hologram. 

The movie “Marjorie Prime” opened in August. Then, Smith appeared in November’s “Lady Bird,” the acclaimed Greta Gerwig film that’s another awards season favorite. For a venerated actress who has consistently worked without achieving widespread fame, Smith’s 2017 has been an improbable treat. It’s one of precious few examples of aging performers earning their due. 

HuffPost sat down with Smith in New York on the afternoon of last month’s Gotham Awards. If she earns an Oscar nomination on Jan. 23, she’ll be among the oldest nominees in the award’s 90-year history. What does she think of all this fuss? She’s grateful, of course, but she could do without it, too.

It seems you’ve had a huge year. Does it feel that way to you?

Oh my gosh, it’s been wild. This past year has been very quiet for me, actually, in a certain way. I was recovering from [her partner, actor David Margulies’] death, which happened a year ago last January. It’s getting into almost two years now.

But the year just before this very year was so busy. The first time I did “Marjorie Prime” was the fall of 2014, and after that, I did a play at [Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago] that Rory Kinnear had written, his first play, and directly back to New York and pretty straight into Annie Baker’s play “John” [at Signature Theatre Company in August 2015]. And right after that was the filming of “Marjorie Prime,” and right after that — I mean, really, hours — into the first rehearsal of “Marjorie Prime” onstage at Playwrights Horizons.

And then it was January of 2016. That year, I turned down all the roles that came for the stage. Nothing I was really into. But I started doing quite a lot of guest shots in episodic series. It’s all been really overwhelming, really it has been.

I’m not working [now]. Well, I’m doing television stuck in among the other things, briefly. I’ve got plays coming up, but not until spring.

Do you prefer to stay in New York?

I do. I love to be at home. I really do.

Was there a point in your career when you became choosier about the roles that required travel?

Well, for quite a while I was a single mother with a growing child, and I thought, I can’t really take long trips, and I also don’t want to. It’s a good excuse.

And then later, there were good times, onstage and on film, of going out of town. I haven’t done a lot of classics, though. I’ve done almost no Shakespeare, I’m sorry to say, but I did get to do some Chekhov and Shaw. Irene Lewis was so great — the first time I worked at the Baltimore Center Stage, when she was the artistic director, I did a modern George Walker play, and she asked me if there’s anything I wanted to do. At that time, I knew I wanted to do “The Cherry Orchard,” and we did a beautiful production. And then I said, “When I was a student, I always thought I’d do Shaw, and I never had.” And she did “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” for me, so that was a treat.

I always say it’s the people or the material, and when the people and the material were very attractive, there’s no reason I couldn’t do the plays.

Is there a Shakespeare role that you’d love to get your hands on?

You know, it’s a little late now for my favorites. There might still be something.

You could kick “Macbeth” up a couple of generations and do an older Lady Macbeth, right?

[Laughs.] We’ll see.

The list of people you’ve worked with is astonishing: John Cassavetes, James Stewart, Helen Hayes, James Dean, Jack Nicholson — all before 1980.

Isn’t that amazing? As it happens, it just happens. You know, James Dean was not an icon. He was a very talented, fascinating young actor doing his first movie. Certainly, some of it has been sort of astonishing, but it’s never like ― gasp! 

I’ve been most greatly fortunate, and sometimes very fortunate to have something drop in my lap, like working with James Stewart on a television show. That was just a funny thing — I don’t know how it happened. Somebody in the big television casting stuff must have noticed that I was one of the young actresses who had started to work. But it was never a big pursuit. I just kept working. I’ve been very fortunate to do that.

Did James Stewart have a big movie-star aura?

No, no. Most people are lovely, really.

“Marjorie Prime” has consumed such a large portion of your life.

It’s been well over four years since I was first handed “Marjorie Prime” to play. I’ve been living with it a long time.

It does seem like your profile has risen in conjunction with this role. Audiences get to discover the same role across stage and screen.

It’s interesting. When you just said stage and screen are coming together, that’s true, really, because I don’t think that’s ever happened before for me, and it doesn’t happen very often that people play something on the stage and get to make a film of it.

Now, when I did it onstage, I did it at the Taper in LA, and at the Playwrights Horizon. These are places where I’ve done regional theater, and the New York scene of theater companies where I have worked for a long time. So that was not a new audience for me. It was wonderful to bring this wonderful play to these audiences, I certainly feel that. And in film, again, I’ve been doing films for 60 years, but this one was really special. It’s special on its own terms.

Some critics have called it the greatest role of your career.

I don’t even know how to think about that. Whenever people ask you something like that, you know — the answer to the what’s-your-favorite question is, “The last one.” Because what are you going to do? It’s very hard. There are many meaningful things for different reasons, and especially once you’ve been at it as long as I have.

What were your first ideas about the play, which addresses concepts of memory and death?

The minute I read it, I was so excited. […] I’ve always found [Marjorie Prime] the most full-of-life character. The play is funnier, and the movie is sadder. It has partly to do with the adaptation and partly to do with the tonality of the two different people who made them. It’s the same story, but of course, there are differences with the movie. The play takes place in one room, and I was mostly sitting in a reclining chair all evening. That’s a big difference, but the character remains very much the same.

When you first saw the movie, were you prepared for that tonal difference?

It took me quite a while to accept the movie entirely as itself because I couldn’t help it. I’d been living with this text for a long time. I’d read the screenplay [by Michael Almereyda], and of course, admired it from the beginning. And I think I increasingly appreciate many things about it.

I think Michael did many wonderful things to make this a movie, because it’s not a simple, obvious thing to do when it’s very contained, with few characters in one place. It’s very verbal, and it’s very thoughtful and provocative — all things I love.

And of course, you do a play and you don’t see yourself. And actually, when you do a film you can see yourself, and that is not always easy, either. Maybe because I’m a stage actress so much, I’m not used to seeing myself act. It’s true I’ve been doing it for a long time, but it is different. It’s not something that happens to you in a play.

And I must say, I think when I first see myself in something, more often than not, it’s difficult. It’s not the most fun, to judge one’s own performance. We often are not very good at it as actors. I know a lot of other actors have that trouble, too. Some have it worse than I do.

Do you ever go back and watch your older work?

Rarely, though once in a while something comes up, like “East of Eden.” Quite a number of years ago now, it had some big anniversary, so there were a lot of events. That was an occasion for seeing it again.

What did you think upon revisiting it?

Oh, I loved it. It’s better if it’s long ago. And also, it’s really interesting — I remember a film I made with Paul Mazursky many years ago, “Next Stop, Greenwich Village.” It was a film that, for some reason — I think it had to do with a piece of music — was never on television, and people didn’t see it. And I hadn’t seen it or thought about it, really. But that must have gotten fixed, because it was on television.

I happened onto it, and in that case, it was like, “Oh my god, how young we all were,” because it was this circle of New York actors. We were so young! Chris Walken is in it, and Jeff Goldblum and Ellen Greene. That was like visiting another time, because it really was of its time.

Acting is maybe the only profession that provides a living yearbook to open, or not, at your choosing.

It’s true, isn’t it? You don’t have to go looking for it sometimes — it just appears.

Do you feel you’re fundamentally a stage actress?

I guess I do. It’s where I started. I was really lucky when I first came to New York and started working. Within the first couple of years, I was working both onstage and in television, of which there was lots then, in the ’50s. I mean, lots. There were plays on television — not series, but every week, plays. Right away, I started to do plays for television and film. That was really lucky, in so many ways.

Do you feel like you’ve managed to accomplish onscreen what you would want to, given that theater and the stage are your bread and butter?

Well, you don’t get much bread and butter in the theater. Really, film and television is where the bread and butter is, in terms of making a living.

But had I been a more famous movie person, I might have had better parts. I think I had some lovely parts. I’m not complaining about them. But I never felt I was a movie star.

When American Cinematheque in LA announced they were going to do a retrospective — three days of double features of films of mine — my immediate response was, “Well, that doesn’t make any sense. I’m not a movie star. Who would come to that?” And after friends and family told me, “No, this is really nice,” I thought, “Oh yeah.” And it was! It was really nice. And now The Quad is going to do something like that in New York. I guess that also gave me the feeling, “Well, yeah! I did some interesting things in movies.”

I’ve always felt, as much as I’ve thought about it ― which, lately, I have thought about it ― I’ve had the kind of fame which I felt was just the right amount. It’s really lovely if people come up to you and say, “Your work really means a lot to me” and “I like your work.” But to be chased around by photographers? That would not be a nice way to live.

So you never had a craving to hit the next level?

To be more and more famous? I guess not. Isn’t that funny? I guess not. I mean, in this business — I’m sure it’s true in many places, but it’s certainly true in our business — you need to be known in order to get more and better work. So, yes, I appreciate that if I worked, and worked well, I’d get better known, and then I’d get more and better work. That was always a true thing, which I did not negate at all.

I wasn’t aware of drawing a line, but what I’m saying makes me think I did, because I didn’t long to be on everybody’s gossip column. That is not something that seemed attractive to me.

Looking back, is there a particular role that let you feel like you’d made it?

I don’t know about that. Every good piece of work really helped. Sometimes I’m not aware of the connections of it all. Just a few years ago, I did a scene on “The Americans.” I think it was about three years ago. It was a wonderful scene. As soon as they sent it to me, I thought, boy, they’re not usually this good, this complete, this well-written.

I was very fortunate: I was busy, but they waited for me. I was shooting “The Nice Guys,” a movie, and that turned out really well. I have a feeling that, because I got a lot of acclaim for it, that made more and more television work come, more and more requests for me to do a guest-star.

Now, I think that’s true, but I can’t be sure, because a lot of things change. For instance, all of a sudden there’s so much television, and certainly in New York. I’m not in a position to say “this caused this,” but that’s what it felt like to me. It made a difference in the employment track right there.

“The Young and Beautiful,” when I did it in New York, I think I won every award I could have won, because it was off-Broadway that year. I think that also elevated my status.

You mentioned knowing that the “Americans” role was acclaimed. How does that get filtered to you? Do you ever Google yourself?

No, I didn’t Google it. First of all, when they actually finished it, before it was shown, I got a telephone call from the two producers. I found that really unusual. They had just seen it and they were really excited. Then, when it came out, a lot of people talked about it, and still do. And then I was nominated for some broadcasters’ award, and there would be little press things saying “should have gotten an Emmy.”

I don’t care, but it’s that kind of thing. Many, many people remember it, and speak of it. It was a particularly good piece. There’s nothing like good work. It’s always the material and the people you work with.

Were you familiar with Greta Gerwig before “Lady Bird” came along?

Oh yes, I saw her as an actress and a writer, and I was enormously impressed with her as an actress, my goodness. But I had not met her until the first day of shooting. Somebody called my agent and asked if I wanted to do it, which I did.

She has such a distinctive voice as a writer. What was she like as a director?

Well, she was absolutely, as she herself described it, creating a safe place. She’s really something. And her first time directing? The major part of my part was shot the second and third day of the shoot, so I was very, very early in the shoot of her first film. I was very impressed. And then it went on and on for weeks while I wasn’t there, because my part’s little and it’s all concentrated. I think she’s really quite astonishing.

Have you played a nun before “Lady Bird”?

No! I haven’t.

Every great actress has to play a nun at least once.

Well, I’m glad I had a chance. Something reminded me of this, maybe the nun. William Wyler was casting “The Nun’s Story” with Audrey Hepburn, and I was pregnant. I remember when we spoke. We were talking about dates, and realizing the date they were proposing was almost immediately after [my due date]. We all just sat and looked at each other, and I thought, well, that would have been fun. I mean, this was in 1957.

And you were offered the role but couldn’t take it because of the timing?

You know, I’m not sure he actually offered it. We met, and I could tell in the room that I was certainly a high candidate for it. But that was that.

See, everything comes full-circle. You didn’t play a nun then, and now you can play one now. She’s an interesting character because she’s so compassionate.

It’s such a great character, to be a teacher. She’s so compassionate and involved and understanding of the kids she’s dealing with, but she’s a grownup.

Often, popular culture presents nuns who go into education as strict and cloistered. It’s interesting to see a California spin on that, if you will. Did you grow up religious at all?

Yes, I grew up Protestant. My family were devout Protestants. When I was little, I went to Sunday school and church all the time.

Here we are on the day of the Gotham Awards. What is it like to be part of the Oscar conversation?

Well, I guess it’s fun. It’s also exhausting. I don’t find award shows the most fun events in the world. I said the other day, “I’m not keen on the contest idea, both in our country and in our profession.”

But it is there, and it’s hard to ignore it. It’s not something that I’ve been panting after in my life. And I feel I’ve had a lot of awards — more in theater than in film. Of course, it’s gratifying to be praised, to be valued. There’s no doubt about it. That’s lovely, it really is. So there’s an element of pleasure.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Works by Woolf, Dumas, Kipling

As you may know, what’s described as hundreds of thousands of copyrighted works were released into the public domain today (January 1) in the United States. They include not only books but also Cecil B. DeMille’s film The 10 Commandments, Noël Coward’s musical London Calling! and one of the greatest revenge songs ever written, “Who’s Sorry Now?” the music for which is by Ted Snyder with lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

Such a formidable entry into the public domain hasn’t happened in the States in more than 20 years.

And the reason for that exposes one of the more interesting elements of copyright law: while  today we tend to worry about instances in which copyright protection is being weakened—as is the case in Canada where the Copyright Modernization Act has severely damaged copyright revenue collection for publishers and authors in the educational domain—there are actually cases in which overly zealous copyright protection is a problem, as well.

In the book industry and here at Publishing Perspectives, you often encounter concerns about “the erosion of copyright” as a grave and growing danger in the digital era. And so it is.

But you’ll find the phrase “erosion of the public domain” most pertinent to today’s news. And that’s because of a 1998 law called the Copyright Term Extension Act, or the Sony Bono Act—named for the entertainer-turned-congressman who died in a skiing accident nine months prior to the act’s passage.

As the staff of the Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain writes in an article called “The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain” there have been several steps in copyright legislation in the United States, resulting in the situation today.

We’re bulleting out the center’s text for you here for clarity and to make the progression of changes clearer:

1790: “When Congress passed the first copyright law in 1790, the copyright term lasted for 14 years, with the option to renew for another 14 years if the copyright holder was still living.

Until 1978: “Before 1978, the copyright term was still 28 years from the date of publication, renewable once for another 28 years—but 85 percent of copyrights were not renewed and went immediately into the public domain.

1978: “Under the 1976 Copyright Act—which went into effect in 1978—the term became 50 years from the date of the author’s death (with no need to renew to have the full term).

1998: “And in 1998, the copyright term was increased to 70 years after the death of the author, and to 95 years after publication for corporate “works-for-hire”, locking up an entire generation of works for an additional 20 years. With these and interim extensions, the copyright term has been extended 11 times in the past 50 years.”

And because that 1998 extension was retroactively applied to works that were then about to go into the public domain, there are works being released today that go all the way back to 1923: they were originally to have entered the public domain two decades ago.

‘The Mickey Mouse Act’

The Duke center researchers report that an astonishing 98 percent of copyrighted material now may be “orphaned”—a term that means no rights holders can be found or identified for these works. Studies, the center reports, indicate that only 2 percent of works now between 55 and 75 years old still have commercial value. So no one is benefitting from their protected status, “while the entire public,” writes the center’s staff, “loses the ability to adapt, transform, preserve, digitize, republish, and otherwise make new and valuable uses of these forgotten works.”

Glenn Fleishman wrote the Bono Act at The Atlantic in April, in a reflection of how the late Rep. Bono–who represented California’s 44th district—is understood to have been driven primarily by Hollywood’s interest in longer protections.

This is how the Sonny Bono Act got another, less felicitous nickname for itself: The Mickey Mouse Act.

“The Sonny Bono Act,” Fleishman writes, “was widely seen as a way to keep Disney’s Steamboat Willie from slipping into the public domain, which would allow that first appearance of Mickey Mouse in 1928 from being freely copied and distributed. By tweaking the law, Mickey got another 20-year reprieve. When that expires [in 2024], Steamboat Willie can be given away, sold, remixed, turned pornographic, or anything else.”

And in an insightful opinion piece, The New York Times’ editorial board on February 21, 1998, wrote:

“What vexes any discussion of copyright is the idea of benefit. It is easy to see what the Disney Corporation will lose when Mickey Mouse goes out of copyright, as he will within a few years. It is harder to specify what the public will lose if Mickey Mouse does not go out of copyright.

“The tendency, when thinking about copyright, is to vest the notion of creativity in the owners of copyright. But artists, including those who work for places like Disney, always emerge from the undifferentiated public, and the works in the public domain, which means nearly every work of any kind produced before the early 1920’s, are an essential part of every artist’s sustenance, of every person’s sustenance. So far, Congress has heard no representatives of the public domain. It has apparently forgotten that its own members are meant to be those representatives.”

As for books, in particular, the Duke center’s Balfour Smith’s research has produced a helpful list, according to which some of the works today being released into the public domain include:

Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf

Maestro-Don Geusaldo, Giovanni Verga, translated by DH Lawrence

Ivanhoe, Walter Scott, illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover

Heidi, Johanna Spyri, illustrations by Gustaf Tanggren

The Prospects of Industrial Civilization, Bertrand Russell

Bel Ami, Guy de Maupassant

If Men Played Cards as Women Do, George S. Kaufman

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol

Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls, Rudyard Kipling

Where Are We Going?, David Lloyd George

Harmonium, Wallace Stevens

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie

St. Joan, George Bernard Shaw

Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers

‘The Second Part of the Copyright Bargain’

In arguing its case, the Duke center’s messaging takes care to counter any suggestion that its policies are in some way anti-copyright.

Public domain is “the second part of the copyright bargain; the limited period of exclusive rights ends and the work enters the realm of free culture.”Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain

“Does all this mean that copyright is a bad system?” we read in the center’s material. “Of course not. Copyright gives creators—authors, musicians, filmmakers, photographers—exclusive rights over their works for a limited time. This encourages creators to create and publishers to distribute—that’s a very good thing.

“But when the copyright ends, the work enters the public domain—to join the plays of Shakespeare, the music of Mozart, the books of Dickens—the material of our collective culture. That’s a good thing too. It’s the second part of the copyright bargain; the limited period of exclusive rights ends and the work enters the realm of free culture.

“Prices fall, new editions come out, songs can be sung, symphonies performed, movies displayed. Even better, people can legally build on what came before.”

And in honor of this important “Public Domain Day” in the States, we leave you with four verses that are among the best-loved poetry of the American canon.

Robert Frost’s 1922 “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was published in 1923, renewed by Frost in 1951, and then copyrighted in 1969 by Henry Holt and Company as part of The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem.

Before today, this poem technically couldn’t be fully quoted in a formal publication without permission of the publisher. Now, it can.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

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Alien: Covenant (SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT)

Okay, so I’ve done one without spoilers but now…now I’m going to go crazy.

In case it’s not obvious… SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT. DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE SPOILERS.

First of all…I really fucking loved the movie. I absolutely fucking loved it. Go and watch it please.

There’s a number of things I just want to talk about and get out of my system. I’m going to just highlight some things, but it might get long.

David getting all “who created you” with Peter Weyland, all philosophical and shit. David is interesting. (I’m guessing this part was BEFORE Prometheus)

On the Covenant ship, I really digged Walter (a synthetic) checking up on the stats of the crew in cryosleep. There are also 2000 colonists and more than 1000 embryos to help start a colony, all frozen or in sleep.

So the ship goes through this blast/shockwave thing, and it damages a part of the ship; the crew are all awakened from cryosleep and clamber out of their pods (in their suits).

Oram and some others have to help Daniels out as she’s all groggy, which is kinda cute.

The only person who doesn’t get out is Captain Jacob Branson, because his pod jams shut or something; the crew all try to get him out but have no luck.

Daniels, who is the captain’s wife, panics and has to be held back as everyone tries to help their captain. Nothing works, and the pod catches fire; Branson is incinerated and killed as his wife watches.

Katherine in this scene and the following one where she’s going through her husband’s stuff BROKE MY FUCKING HEART. WHY??

While trying to repair the ship, they pick up a transmission from a planet that seems perfect for them/the colony. Bearing in mind that the original planet they were planning to get to is still more than 7 years away, the crew decides that they should check out the new planet…

…all except Daniels, who is the only one on this damn ship who has ANY sense even when she’s dealing with bereavement/grief: “we don’t know what the fuck’s out there!” Exactly. It’s just too convenient that a planet that’s perfect for them suddenly appears out of nowhere. They should have listened to Daniels.

I’m going to jump ahead and just say that the backburster/mouthburster scenes were FUCKING HORRIFYING OH MY GOD

NO BUT LIKE THAT NEOMORPH BEING BORN WHAT THE FUCK

Oram has to be held down by Daniels when he sees the little launcher thing explode (it had his wife on it), who – even when dealing with a tragedy – is still more help/more use/smarter than the rest of the crew.

Another Neomorph bursts out of this guy’s mouth. It nearly kills Daniels, but she’s saved by Walter – he loses his hand to save her.

I want to just take a moment to appreciate the scene between David and Walter where David teaches Walter how to play the flute. I want to appreciate it right now.

“You blow, I’ll do the fingering” – I WAS DYING SO BADLY I CANNOT

Also, DAVID KISSING WALTER WHAT IN THE FUCK

Look, I ain’t gonna lie – I kinda maybe ship Daniels and Walter. In a weird way?

David agrees with me: he says that he loved Elizabeth, then looks at Walter and says “just like you love Daniels”. He points out that Walter lost his hand to save her, but Walter maintains that it was “duty”, not love.

David is a fucking creep, he’s a villain, oh my god.

That scene where the Neomorph sneaks in and kills Rosenthal is also FUCKING TERRIFYING AS SHIT. I MEAN IT HAD NO FACE BUT THEN IT HAD A MOUTH WITH RAZOR SHARP TEETH AND IT TORE HER FUCKING HEAD OFF

Watching David “horse-whisper” the Neomorph strangely reminded me of Newt Scamander perhaps coaxing a dangerous creature into his case.

Would just like to say now that no, Elizabeth Shaw didn’t die in a crash like David said – he killed her, probably by infecting her with those pathogens if her corpse/his drawings are anything to go by. Poor Elizabeth didn’t deserve that.

David growing those alien eggs, one of which ends up launching a facehugger at Oram (then there’s a chestburster)

David attacking Daniels and then forcing a kiss on her was fucking fucked up. Thankfully, Walter saves the day by attacking David and they have a big fight.

The scene with Katherine/Daniels hanging off the side of a ship was scary as shit because like…she was hanging off a ship while battling an alien?? BAD ASS.

“Captain Daniels” – YES OH MY GOD YES. I HAVE ALREADY SAVED THIS AS A URL FOR FUTURE USE. GOD BLESS RIDLEY SCOTT FOR THIS.

Honestly, just whenever Katherine/Daniels swore – appreciate the swearing, it’s great.

Shout-out to Danny McBride for playing an actual character who wasn’t just comic-relief/a joke.

Can I just say that sex/shower/shower sex is always a clear indicator that a character is about to die? I saw the shower and was like “well, those two are fucked”. (considering they were having sex in the shower, I see the double entendre in this now)

Lots and lots of blood.

Katherine/Daniels survives, which is honestly the greatest thing because I was dreading her dying.

Final battle = awesome. I love that Daniels decides “we’ll bring it to my turf” i.e. the terraforming bay.

Okay, and now here is where I go off into multiple bullets about the ending holy fuck

DAVID WAS IMPERSONATING WALTER??? HE KILLED WALTER DURING THEIR FIGHT??? AND THEN IMPERSONATED HIM???? WHY????

It was honestly very sad when Daniels said to “Walter” about helping her build the “cabin on a lake” that she and her husband had planned – and then that realisation and horror when she realized that it wasn’t Walter but DAVID.

By this point David had already activated cryosleep in her pod and so she was panicking for like a good 20-40 seconds before the sleep overtook her and she couldn’t do anything about it.

David regurgitating and planting facehugger embryos with the normal embryos – I see what you’re doing there, David, don’t lie.

Overall, I loved the film – the cast were awesome, aliens were awesome, Katherine herself is awesome and deserves an honourable mention…I personally loved it. I’d probably give it a 7/10?

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Alien Reflections : A David 8 Character Study PART THREE

A/N: In my last post... “I think David is lying about his ‘lack of disappointment’, if he genuinely feels no disappointment for the reason for his… ‘conception’, then why is David so obsessed with the idea of creating and creation? Just think on that for a while...”

And so we continue…

I want to deviate back to what I touched upon in my first post, David’s interest in Shaw. I agree with Chris Stuckmann, as well as other analysts when it is said that David is intrigued by Shaw’s faith.

MV: Weyland was a superstitious man. He wanted a true believer on board.

At first I thought that Vickers meant both Shaw and Not-Tom-Hardy. However upon re-watch, this is not the case. Vicker’s statement is meant for Shaw, she is the “true believer” Weyland wanted on board. Later this is confirmed when Shaw finds out about Weyland being not only alive but on board the Prometheus.

ES: You’ve been asleep here on the ship all this time.Why? PW: Well, I have a few days of life left in me. Didn’t want to waste them until I was sure you could deliver what you promised, to meet my maker.

PW: You convinced me that if these things made us, then surely they could save us.

PW: Well, save me, anyway. ES: Save you, from what? PW: Death, of course.

ES: You don’t understand. You don’t know. This place isn’t what we thought it was. They aren’t what we thought they were. I was wrong! We were so wrong! Charlie. Dr. Holloway’s dead. We must leave! PW: And what would Charlie do now? That we’re so close to answering the most meaningful questions ever asked by mankind. How can you leave without knowing what they are? Or have you lost your faith, Shaw?

[Shaw begins to cry]

In my opinion it’s very likely that Weyland discussed Shaw’s faith with Vickers or perhaps even David prior to the expedition to LV-223. It could be this initial curiosity about Shaw, her beliefs and why she has them, which drew David to spy on her. Consequently, it resulted in his fixation on her too.

David is curious about faith, but at present (meaning the Promethean version of David, not the Alien Covenant’s version.) he does not understand it. What he does comprehend is that, while yes Weyland did indeed create David, David himself does not see Weyland as his “God”. In fact he resents him, I also think that Weyland to a certain extent, knows this, because he seems desperate near the end to meet his maker and stand on equal footing. He wants to prove to David that he IS his God.

He seeks this validation from the Awakened Engineer, for in his own words Weyland states,

PW: “You and I… We are superior, we are creators, we are Gods and Gods never die…”

(hmm...)

One thing which stands out in my mind (well one of many things.) is the scene where Shaw wakes up on the back lit medical bed after Not-Tom Hardy’s death. Picture it, if you will, of Shaw laying in a bed of light completely dressed in all white. There is something ethereal, almost “Madonna- like” in the way the shot is framed. It is a pure image, angelic in nature, she looks asleep.

Next we are shown the exact moment when Shaw loses her faith. It takes the form of David’s hands removing her cross from her neck, causing Shaw to wake up. And you know what happens after that… sh*t gets real fam, sh*t gets real…

Now I have always found it interesting that while we see David place the necklace in a container and put it… well somewhere. We never see what he actually does with it. In fact its only when later at the very end of the movie when Shaw demands her cross, (aka her faith) from David that it’s revealed he in fact kept it on his person all along.  

Do you understand? He took Shaw’s faith and consciously kept it for his own. Yet in the same breath has the nerve to say to Shaw.

D: Must feel like your God abandoned you.

 In the scene where Shaw reclaims the cross (her faith) her actions, for me at least, is more-less telling David without words, faith is something you can never really take from a true believer. Because it was never yours in the first place, faith is something one must find for one’s self. False faith will get you nowhere…

This begs the question why do this? Why keep something that is not his? Was David seeking out, in his logical sort of way, faith for himself? Did he think from all the insight he had gleamed from Elizabeth’s dreams that her necklace held some sort of answer? Some sort of validation for his creation?

This makes me think back to the beginning of Prometheus when we see the Holo-Weyland and what he says about David.

PW: There’s a man sitting with you today, his name is David. He is the closest thing to a son I will ever have, unfortunately, he is not human. He will never grow old and he will never die. And yet he is unable to appreciate these remarkable gifts, for that would require the one thing that David will never have; a soul.

Note David’s expression, watch the subtle change as Weyland states this. It’s not the first time he makes such an expression and it wont be the last.  Later in the extended cut scene with the Awakened Engineer we hear Weyland’s true thoughts about David.

PW: You see this man? My company built him from nothing. I made him! I made him in my own image! So that he… he would be perfect, so that he would never fail. (…) You… you and I… We are superior, we are creators, we are Gods and Gods never die…”

Interesting... there’s that word again… create, it’s thrown around a lot in this film don’t you think? In any case, I’ll get to my thoughts concerning that tomorrow.

TBC in Part Four

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Diets Quotes

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• 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day’s journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day’s rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson • 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together. – Mark Bittman • A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. – Naomi Wolf • A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don’t eat. – Robert Atkins • A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then. – Joshua Harris • A relationship book I once read told women to use the word fun whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times – the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me. – Julie Klausner • a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation. – Pauline Kael • After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets… and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life. – Marilu Henner • After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she’s gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay. – Norm MacDonald • Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action. – Grant Cardone • Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal. – Herbert M. Shelton • An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. – Norman Cousins • As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again. – Andrew Weil • As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What’s hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it. – Arundhati Roy • At one point, I even thought, “Oh, I’ll take diet pills.” I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It’s awful, and I would never, ever recommend it. – Jenna Ushkowitz • Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously. – Kevin Kelly

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Diet', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_diet').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_diet img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Audiences have proved time and again that they don’t want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views – especially if he’s a comedian. – Johnny Carson • Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money. – Dave Barry • Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state…. Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old? – William Alcott • But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one’s life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss. – Angela Thirkell • But if one doesn’t have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience. – Maria Franziska von Trapp • By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don’t catch colds, you don’t get cancer, you don’t get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets? – Joseph Pilates

[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I’ve kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don’t like it with champagne. – Iris Apfel • Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities… We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies. – Christiane Northrup • Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you’re eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt. – Michael Pollan • Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same. – Lee Clow • Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren’t what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years. – Dan Buettner • Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! – Karl Lagerfeld • Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses. – Anna Lappe • Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails – Sun Simiao • Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet. – Cathy Hopkins • Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle. – Mia Hamm • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. – George Bernard Shaw • Everyone seems to think I’m very ladylike. That I’m very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I’ve been known to use the F-word. I’ve told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle. – Helena Bonham Carter • Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet. – David Perlmutter • First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don’t try and “go cold turkey”; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it. – Gary Player • Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that’s what is so wonderful about it because it’s so structured and your body is changing and you’re able to do things that you’ve never done before. You’re stronger than you’ve ever been before. – Jessica Biel • Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households … [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil – without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle. – Frances Ford Seymour • Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet. – Robert Atkins • Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for Spamalot and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life. – Sanjeev Bhaskar • Good health is multifaceted – it’s physical, it’s internal, it’s my diet, and my emotional state. It’s all tied in together. – Michelle Obama • Hearing politicians tell us we can’t afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can’t afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don’t have. I can’t pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. – Ann Coulter • Hey! D’you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet… died a vegetable. That’s a damn good joke. But that joke’s like a Toyota Camry – reliable, not inspiring. – Christopher Titus • High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can’t stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets – many are fat themselves. – John A. McDougall • Hope is a very thin diet. – Thomas Shadwell • How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it? – Robert Atkins • I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a “panacea” for human ills; it is something much more rational – an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past. – Henry Stephens Salt • I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books. – Mason Cooley • I always ate healthy, but it wasn’t scientific. Now it’s a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don’t get tired after a meal. It does take a very detailed meal plan. – Lindsey Vonn • I always want to defeat supervillains – it’s just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I’m not into. – Amy Adams • I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy. – Tony Parsons • I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears. – Tom Waits • I changed my diet completely. You know, I’m from Cleveland, so I’ve always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It’s basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else. – Joe Eszterhas • I continue to be amazed by our bodies’ ability for self-repair. … Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That’s what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it’s never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier. – Michael Greger • I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. – Ellen Burstyn • I didn’t realize that diets don’t work, and I did not want to diet. I didn’t want to do anything that required dieting. – Octavia Spencer • I diet between meals. – Michael Winner • I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies. – Martin Luther • I don’t do any crazy diets. I take vitamins and eat three times a day. – Selena • I don’t have a diet, and whenever I feel like eating a burger or pizza or tacos, I just go for it. I feel like my body is telling me I need that. I think it’s important for an actress to look like a real person. – Stephanie Sigman • I dont have a trainer. I have what I call the poor mans workout and the rich mans diet. I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if its 3 in the morning. – T. J. Thyne • I don’t have hardly any caffeine, I don’t drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying. – Jayne Middlemiss • I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar. – Sally Phillips • I don’t have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want. – Maria Sharapova • I don’t think I’ve ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I’m not skinny now – I’m spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet – mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa. – Nick Antosca • I don’t think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it’s not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion. – Paul R. Ehrlich • I don’t think the problem is telling people you’re on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast. – Chelsea Handler • I don’t want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year’s resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I’m trying. – Blake Mills • I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn’t necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts. – Adriana Lima • I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day. – Art Linkletter • I eat healthy and don’t go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates. – Vijender Singh • I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue. – Constance Marie • I feel good. I’m much better. Actually, I just lost 10 pounds on a new diet called the flu. Has anyone tried that one out? – Jay Mohr • I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems … In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried. – Andrew Weil • I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places. – Brandon Boyd • I follow the Dr. Peter D’Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It’s an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual… and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken. – Miranda Kerr • I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs – boiled or fried – a few bananas and a glass of milk. – Vijender Singh • I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet. – Robert Atkins • I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say. – Henry David Thoreau • I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I’m very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they’re not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me. – Richard Simmons • I heard once that I’m considering having liposuction. And the reason I find that so ridiculous is I’ve gone out of my way to train really hard the last eight months. I want to prove you don’t need surgery, you don’t need steroids and you don’t even need to diet. I’ve lost over a stone and that’s all been down to good old-fashioned exercise. Once your metabolism gets going you can enjoy your life. – Peter Andre • I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. – Sullivan Stapleton • I know you’re on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex? – David Letterman • I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it’s all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that’s out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad. – Greg Rutherford • I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. – William Shatner • I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state… a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. – William L. Shirer • I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. – Chick Corea • I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That’s a bit much. – Chris Mohr • I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing. – Alistair Brownlee • I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. – Gwen Stefani • I try not to have a lot of sugar in my system. If I have sugar for breakfast, whether that be fruit or some pancakes or French toast, they’ll make sure all of the meals for the rest of the day have no sugar in them. I try to take the sugar out of my diet. – Dwight Howard • I try to eliminate processed food completely out of my diet. That’s bad for you. – Teri Hatcher • I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts. – Mr. T • I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself. – Jean Cocteau • I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate. – Cathy Guisewite • I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn’t get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet. – Robert Atkins • I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did. – Mark Spitz • If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained. – Frederick Banting • If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. – Jean Baudrillard • If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor’s bill, a beggar’s purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning – but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold. – Jonathan Swift • If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew. – Daniel Pauly • If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever. – Wallace Stegner • If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor. – Amos Oz • If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you’ve never juiced vegetables, start. If you’ve never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness. – Andrew Saul • If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form. – Edith Head • If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you’ll still see the pounds come off. – Misty May-Treanor • If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it’s going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don’t say, “Oh, my jeans don’t fit,” or “Oh, I was bad.” No diets. Nothing like that. – Bethenny Frankel • If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs. – Carlos Zambrano • I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home. – Billy Connolly • I’m cancer-free. And I’m on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don’t have resentment any more. It’s wonderful. – Louis Gossett, Jr. • I’m completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated. – Bob Saget • I’m fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say ‘Fine – how was your lobotomy?’ – Roseanne Barr • I’m in the gym pretty much every day. I’ve been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can. – Jesse McCartney • I’m not going on a diet, I’m not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it’d be boring. – Jesy Nelson • I’m not on a diet. And it’s funny cause people go ‘Well, then why do you drink diet soda?’ So I can eat regular cake. – Gabriel Iglesias • I’m on a diet as my skin doesn’t fit me anymore. – Erma Bombeck • I’m on a seafood diet – I see food, I eat it. – Dolly Parton • I’m on my version of the protein diet, but there ain’t no protein in it. It’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers. – J. B. Smoove • I’m on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That’s a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver’s license. – Larry the Cable Guy • Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet. – Phil Crosby • In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image – a new year. – Arabella Weir • Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life. – Frederick Banting • It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity. – Pope Francis • It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice. – Mahatma Gandhi • It may indeed be doubted whether butchers’ meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers’ meat. – Adam Smith • It’s difficult for me to diet, so I don’t. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It’s that simple. – John Travolta • It’s important to keep a balanced diet, but I’m not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I’m going to enjoy that cheeseburger. – Heidi Klum • I’ve always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It’s always been extreme, but in the last few years I’ve gotten into balance. I don’t restrict myself like I used to. – Nico Tortorella • I’ve been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on. – Richard Simmons • I’ve been on every diet in the world. I’ve been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate. – Rosie O’Donnell • I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet. – Dolly Parton • I’ve grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they’ll become better writers – to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form. – Ray Bradbury • I’ve never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life. – Matthew Hussey • I’ve tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine. – Brooke Burke • Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up. – Conan O’Brien • Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. – Gautama Buddha • Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly. – Christian McKay • Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good. – Madhuri Dixit • Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing…I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes. – Dean Ornish • Love’s a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold. – Aphra Behn • Make sure you eat healthy food. You can have the occasional treat, but you also need to balance your diet with foods such as meat and vegetables. It will prevent you from getting colds and enable you to train and to do whatever you want in every day life. – Jenny Meadows • Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred. – Wayne Muller • Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. – Horace • Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn’t, we get divorced. – Merle Shain • Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural. – Homaro Cantu • Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject’s vitality. – Paul Tournier • Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There’s usually a sexy promise attached to these trends – related to diet or fitness – that many people find too tempting to resist. – Jillian Michaels • Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. – Charles Dickens • My day does not truly begin until I’ve acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It’s the Big Gulp that’s important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable. – Cate Marvin • My New Year’s resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day! – Eric Ripert • My number one recommendations for part time grapplers is: no alcohol – no smoking – Follow the Gracie diet. The reason I say that is because smoking and alcohol put a lot of effort on your body. Your lungs. Your liver. Your stomach. These things will make you suffer, man. – Royce Gracie • No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don’t like. – Walter Slezak • Now there’s a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It’s been reflected in a lot of their work. It’s self-reflective, it’s quite knowing, but it’s very literate. – Simon Pegg • Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet. – Deepak Chopra • Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization…Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture…Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement. – Edgard Varese • Once you get into fitness you do notice your diet and notice that certain foods don’t quite agree with you. I don’t think it was a conscious decision, I think it organically happened over time, but I do watch what I eat and try to eat healthy. – Jayne Middlemiss • One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed that something as enjoyable as playing with my son was so tough for me to do. Immediately I started an extensive diet and exercise plan. It completely changed my life and helped cure my Type-2 diabetes. – Drew Carey • One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. – Dian Fossey • One of the good things about the Paleo diet is that it automatically cleans a lot of crap out of your diet. – Chris Mohr • Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I’m ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We’ve got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! – Prince • Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled – though as we’ll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they’ll just keep coming back again and again. – Christopher Ryan • People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it’s the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we’re afflicted with such a horror of aging that we’ve halted the process psychically. – Sue Grafton • Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did. – Summer Sanders • Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning. – Scott Adams • Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet. – Adrian Peterson • Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like “blazing trails,” flying over “shark-infected seas,” “battling with monsoons,” and “forced landings amongst savage tribes” became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin. – Amy Johnson • Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. – Pliny the Elder • So far I’ve always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men. – Angie Dickinson • So, I’m not on a diet. I’m on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness. – Lysa TerKeurst • Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis • Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. – Arabella Weir • Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer. – John Robbins • Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn’t healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old! – Jenna McCarthy • Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. – Josh Billings • Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things…. But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound. – Dorothy H Cohen • That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive – books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all. – Anthony Lane • The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. – Groucho Marx • The best diet is the one that you don’t know you are on. – Chris Powell • The brain’s preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You’ll be a little groggy, a little grumpy. – Jack LaLanne • The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up! – Mitch Hedberg • The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations’ wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. – Dick Cheney • The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. – Christopher Hitchens • The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health. – Bob Schwartz • The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. – Margaret Cho • The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein. – T. Colin Campbell • The ifs and buts of history…form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet. – Vikram • The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper. – Dan Buettner • The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. – Jack Weatherford • The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan. – Pamela Anderson • The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it’s my hobby as well as my job. – Ronnie Coleman • The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes…and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He…appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too. – Luci Swindoll • The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups. – James Beard • The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public’s head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television. – Eric Drooker • The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control. – Maximilian Bircher-Benner • The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it’s ridiculous. – Laura Prepon • Then there’s your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces… anything that’s nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It’s amazing how quickly you get into it. There’s also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously… about two litres a day. – Tom Hardy • There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there’s one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents. – Joel Fuhrman • There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can’t be a diet. You have to change your life. – Al Roker • There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I’ve never been on a strict diet. I just don’t overeat, and I don’t eat if I’m not hungry. – Anna Friel • Throughout my work, my subjects are being told that they must change their diet in order to make the adjustment into the new world. Our bodies must become lighter, and this means the elimination of heavy foods. During the sessions, my clients are repeatedly warned to stop eating meat (beef and pork especially), mainly because of the additives and chemicals that are being fed into the animals. – Dolores Cannon • To develop intuition, one of the things you can do is pay attention to what you eat. Eat as clean a diet as you can. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables without preservatives, without alcohol, caffeine, dyes, and organically grown if possible. But do what is comfortable for your. Don’t try to shift into a lifestyle that doesn’t fit, but be aware that the lighter you eat the lighter you will feel. – Gary Zukav • Travel seems not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. – Jan Morris • Vegetarianism is a healthier diet. – Deepak Chopra • We have been taught to “just eat a balanced diet.” We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works. – Andrew Saul • We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. – Mahatma Gandhi • We stock up on popcorn and candy like we’re crossing the Sierras, don’t we? I’ll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you’ve got there, that bucket? You don’t have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule or anything? – Oh, and a Diet Coke. – Ellen DeGeneres • We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. – Pat Williams • We’re [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It’s healthy and full of vitamins and minerals. – Jennie Finch • We’ve all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you so far. The great players go away and work on extra things. They work harder on their skills, they start having early nights and they think about their diet and training. That is what takes them to the next level. – Warren Gatland • What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. – Roger Ebert • What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population. – Ed Begley, Jr. • When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don’t need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment. – William Katt • When I’m off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can. – Henry Rollins • When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King. – Jack LaLanne • When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,–when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,–oh, then diet yourself well on biography,–the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • When travelling, I make a point of eating a proper diet no matter where I am in the world. It is getting much easier to eat a vegetarian or vegan based diet. – Gary Player • When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet. – Suzanne Somers • When you don’t use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I’m not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn’t worth it. – Laird Hamilton • When you’ve been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you’re just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium. – Chris Rock • whenever I encountered a slide show titled ‘Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds’ or ‘Celebrity Fashion Fails,’ I’d have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I’d need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity. – Merrill Markoe • Whenever you’re looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey. – Scott Adkins • While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet. – Herman Melville • Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)? – Robert Benchley • Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth. – Aristotle • Yes – I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. – Sue Townsend • Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. – Evelyn Waugh • You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don’t have a fitness or diet routine, you won’t be beautiful. – Martha Stewart • You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself. – Lea Michele • You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable. – Robert Atkins • Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood. – Ming-Dao Deng • Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss. – Ann Richards • Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. – William Shakespeare • You’re thinking I’m one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I’m not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway. – Scott Adams

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• 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day’s journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day’s rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson • 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together. – Mark Bittman • A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. – Naomi Wolf • A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don’t eat. – Robert Atkins • A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then. – Joshua Harris • A relationship book I once read told women to use the word fun whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times – the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me. – Julie Klausner • a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation. – Pauline Kael • After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets… and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life. – Marilu Henner • After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she’s gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay. – Norm MacDonald • Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action. – Grant Cardone • Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal. – Herbert M. Shelton • An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. – Norman Cousins • As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again. – Andrew Weil • As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What’s hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it. – Arundhati Roy • At one point, I even thought, “Oh, I’ll take diet pills.” I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It’s awful, and I would never, ever recommend it. – Jenna Ushkowitz • Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously. – Kevin Kelly

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I’ve kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don’t like it with champagne. – Iris Apfel • Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities… We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies. – Christiane Northrup • Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you’re eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt. – Michael Pollan • Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same. – Lee Clow • Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren’t what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years. – Dan Buettner • Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! – Karl Lagerfeld • Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses. – Anna Lappe • Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails – Sun Simiao • Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet. – Cathy Hopkins • Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle. – Mia Hamm • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. – George Bernard Shaw • Everyone seems to think I’m very ladylike. That I’m very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I’ve been known to use the F-word. I’ve told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle. – Helena Bonham Carter • Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet. – David Perlmutter • First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don’t try and “go cold turkey”; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it. – Gary Player • Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that’s what is so wonderful about it because it’s so structured and your body is changing and you’re able to do things that you’ve never done before. You’re stronger than you’ve ever been before. – Jessica Biel • Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households … [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil – without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle. – Frances Ford Seymour • Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet. – Robert Atkins • Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for Spamalot and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life. – Sanjeev Bhaskar • Good health is multifaceted – it’s physical, it’s internal, it’s my diet, and my emotional state. It’s all tied in together. – Michelle Obama • Hearing politicians tell us we can’t afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can’t afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don’t have. I can’t pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. – Ann Coulter • Hey! D’you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet… died a vegetable. That’s a damn good joke. But that joke’s like a Toyota Camry – reliable, not inspiring. – Christopher Titus • High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can’t stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets – many are fat themselves. – John A. McDougall • Hope is a very thin diet. – Thomas Shadwell • How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it? – Robert Atkins • I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a “panacea” for human ills; it is something much more rational – an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past. – Henry Stephens Salt • I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books. – Mason Cooley • I always ate healthy, but it wasn’t scientific. Now it’s a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don’t get tired after a meal. It does take a very detailed meal plan. – Lindsey Vonn • I always want to defeat supervillains – it’s just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I’m not into. – Amy Adams • I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy. – Tony Parsons • I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears. – Tom Waits • I changed my diet completely. You know, I’m from Cleveland, so I’ve always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It’s basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else. – Joe Eszterhas • I continue to be amazed by our bodies’ ability for self-repair. … Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That’s what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it’s never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier. – Michael Greger • I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. – Ellen Burstyn • I didn’t realize that diets don’t work, and I did not want to diet. I didn’t want to do anything that required dieting. – Octavia Spencer • I diet between meals. – Michael Winner • I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies. – Martin Luther • I don’t do any crazy diets. I take vitamins and eat three times a day. – Selena • I don’t have a diet, and whenever I feel like eating a burger or pizza or tacos, I just go for it. I feel like my body is telling me I need that. I think it’s important for an actress to look like a real person. – Stephanie Sigman • I dont have a trainer. I have what I call the poor mans workout and the rich mans diet. I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if its 3 in the morning. – T. J. Thyne • I don’t have hardly any caffeine, I don’t drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying. – Jayne Middlemiss • I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar. – Sally Phillips • I don’t have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want. – Maria Sharapova • I don’t think I’ve ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I’m not skinny now – I’m spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet – mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa. – Nick Antosca • I don’t think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it’s not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion. – Paul R. Ehrlich • I don’t think the problem is telling people you’re on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast. – Chelsea Handler • I don’t want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year’s resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I’m trying. – Blake Mills • I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn’t necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts. – Adriana Lima • I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day. – Art Linkletter • I eat healthy and don’t go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates. – Vijender Singh • I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue. – Constance Marie • I feel good. I’m much better. Actually, I just lost 10 pounds on a new diet called the flu. Has anyone tried that one out? – Jay Mohr • I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems … In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried. – Andrew Weil • I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places. – Brandon Boyd • I follow the Dr. Peter D’Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It’s an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual… and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken. – Miranda Kerr • I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs – boiled or fried – a few bananas and a glass of milk. – Vijender Singh • I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet. – Robert Atkins • I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say. – Henry David Thoreau • I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I’m very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they’re not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me. – Richard Simmons • I heard once that I’m considering having liposuction. And the reason I find that so ridiculous is I’ve gone out of my way to train really hard the last eight months. I want to prove you don’t need surgery, you don’t need steroids and you don’t even need to diet. I’ve lost over a stone and that’s all been down to good old-fashioned exercise. Once your metabolism gets going you can enjoy your life. – Peter Andre • I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. – Sullivan Stapleton • I know you’re on the Atkins diet, but could you stop eating bacon during sex? – David Letterman • I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it’s all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that’s out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad. – Greg Rutherford • I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. – William Shatner • I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state… a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. – William L. Shirer • I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. – Chick Corea • I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That’s a bit much. – Chris Mohr • I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing. – Alistair Brownlee • I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. – Gwen Stefani • I try not to have a lot of sugar in my system. If I have sugar for breakfast, whether that be fruit or some pancakes or French toast, they’ll make sure all of the meals for the rest of the day have no sugar in them. I try to take the sugar out of my diet. – Dwight Howard • I try to eliminate processed food completely out of my diet. That’s bad for you. – Teri Hatcher • I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts. – Mr. T • I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself. – Jean Cocteau • I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate. – Cathy Guisewite • I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn’t get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet. – Robert Atkins • I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did. – Mark Spitz • If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained. – Frederick Banting • If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. – Jean Baudrillard • If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor’s bill, a beggar’s purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning – but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold. – Jonathan Swift • If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew. – Daniel Pauly • If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever. – Wallace Stegner • If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor. – Amos Oz • If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you’ve never juiced vegetables, start. If you’ve never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness. – Andrew Saul • If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form. – Edith Head • If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you’ll still see the pounds come off. – Misty May-Treanor • If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it’s going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don’t say, “Oh, my jeans don’t fit,” or “Oh, I was bad.” No diets. Nothing like that. – Bethenny Frankel • If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs. – Carlos Zambrano • I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home. – Billy Connolly • I’m cancer-free. And I’m on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don’t have resentment any more. It’s wonderful. – Louis Gossett, Jr. • I’m completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated. – Bob Saget • I’m fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say ‘Fine – how was your lobotomy?’ – Roseanne Barr • I’m in the gym pretty much every day. I’ve been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can. – Jesse McCartney • I’m not going on a diet, I’m not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it’d be boring. – Jesy Nelson • I’m not on a diet. And it’s funny cause people go ‘Well, then why do you drink diet soda?’ So I can eat regular cake. – Gabriel Iglesias • I’m on a diet as my skin doesn’t fit me anymore. – Erma Bombeck • I’m on a seafood diet – I see food, I eat it. – Dolly Parton • I’m on my version of the protein diet, but there ain’t no protein in it. It’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers. – J. B. Smoove • I’m on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That’s a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver’s license. – Larry the Cable Guy • Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet. – Phil Crosby • In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image – a new year. – Arabella Weir • Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life. – Frederick Banting • It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity. – Pope Francis • It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice. – Mahatma Gandhi • It may indeed be doubted whether butchers’ meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers’ meat. – Adam Smith • It’s difficult for me to diet, so I don’t. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It’s that simple. – John Travolta • It’s important to keep a balanced diet, but I’m not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I’m going to enjoy that cheeseburger. – Heidi Klum • I’ve always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It’s always been extreme, but in the last few years I’ve gotten into balance. I don’t restrict myself like I used to. – Nico Tortorella • I’ve been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on. – Richard Simmons • I’ve been on every diet in the world. I’ve been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate. – Rosie O’Donnell • I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet. – Dolly Parton • I’ve grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they’ll become better writers – to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form. – Ray Bradbury • I’ve never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life. – Matthew Hussey • I’ve tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine. – Brooke Burke • Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up. – Conan O’Brien • Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. – Gautama Buddha • Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly. – Christian McKay • Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good. – Madhuri Dixit • Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing…I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes. – Dean Ornish • Love’s a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold. – Aphra Behn • Make sure you eat healthy food. You can have the occasional treat, but you also need to balance your diet with foods such as meat and vegetables. It will prevent you from getting colds and enable you to train and to do whatever you want in every day life. – Jenny Meadows • Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred. – Wayne Muller • Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. – Horace • Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn’t, we get divorced. – Merle Shain • Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural. – Homaro Cantu • Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject’s vitality. – Paul Tournier • Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There’s usually a sexy promise attached to these trends – related to diet or fitness – that many people find too tempting to resist. – Jillian Michaels • Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. – Charles Dickens • My day does not truly begin until I’ve acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It’s the Big Gulp that’s important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable. – Cate Marvin • My New Year’s resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day! – Eric Ripert • My number one recommendations for part time grapplers is: no alcohol – no smoking – Follow the Gracie diet. The reason I say that is because smoking and alcohol put a lot of effort on your body. Your lungs. Your liver. Your stomach. These things will make you suffer, man. – Royce Gracie • No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don’t like. – Walter Slezak • Now there’s a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It’s been reflected in a lot of their work. It’s self-reflective, it’s quite knowing, but it’s very literate. – Simon Pegg • Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet. – Deepak Chopra • Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization…Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture…Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement. – Edgard Varese • Once you get into fitness you do notice your diet and notice that certain foods don’t quite agree with you. I don’t think it was a conscious decision, I think it organically happened over time, but I do watch what I eat and try to eat healthy. – Jayne Middlemiss • One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed that something as enjoyable as playing with my son was so tough for me to do. Immediately I started an extensive diet and exercise plan. It completely changed my life and helped cure my Type-2 diabetes. – Drew Carey • One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. – Dian Fossey • One of the good things about the Paleo diet is that it automatically cleans a lot of crap out of your diet. – Chris Mohr • Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I’m ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We’ve got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! – Prince • Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled – though as we’ll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they’ll just keep coming back again and again. – Christopher Ryan • People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it’s the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we’re afflicted with such a horror of aging that we’ve halted the process psychically. – Sue Grafton • Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did. – Summer Sanders • Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning. – Scott Adams • Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet. – Adrian Peterson • Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like “blazing trails,” flying over “shark-infected seas,” “battling with monsoons,” and “forced landings amongst savage tribes” became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin. – Amy Johnson • Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. – Pliny the Elder • So far I’ve always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men. – Angie Dickinson • So, I’m not on a diet. I’m on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness. – Lysa TerKeurst • Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis • Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. – Arabella Weir • Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer. – John Robbins • Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn’t healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old! – Jenna McCarthy • Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. – Josh Billings • Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things…. But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound. – Dorothy H Cohen • That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive – books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all. – Anthony Lane • The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. – Groucho Marx • The best diet is the one that you don’t know you are on. – Chris Powell • The brain’s preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You’ll be a little groggy, a little grumpy. – Jack LaLanne • The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up! – Mitch Hedberg • The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations’ wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. – Dick Cheney • The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. – Christopher Hitchens • The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health. – Bob Schwartz • The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. – Margaret Cho • The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein. – T. Colin Campbell • The ifs and buts of history…form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet. – Vikram • The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper. – Dan Buettner • The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. – Jack Weatherford • The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan. – Pamela Anderson • The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it’s my hobby as well as my job. – Ronnie Coleman • The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes…and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He…appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too. – Luci Swindoll • The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups. – James Beard • The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public’s head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television. – Eric Drooker • The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control. – Maximilian Bircher-Benner • The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it’s ridiculous. – Laura Prepon • Then there’s your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces… anything that’s nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It’s amazing how quickly you get into it. There’s also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously… about two litres a day. – Tom Hardy • There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment of fruits and vegetables consumed, the lower the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there’s one thing we know for sure: raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents. – Joel Fuhrman • There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can’t be a diet. You have to change your life. – Al Roker • There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I’ve never been on a strict diet. I just don’t overeat, and I don’t eat if I’m not hungry. – Anna Friel • Throughout my work, my subjects are being told that they must change their diet in order to make the adjustment into the new world. Our bodies must become lighter, and this means the elimination of heavy foods. During the sessions, my clients are repeatedly warned to stop eating meat (beef and pork especially), mainly because of the additives and chemicals that are being fed into the animals. – Dolores Cannon • To develop intuition, one of the things you can do is pay attention to what you eat. Eat as clean a diet as you can. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables without preservatives, without alcohol, caffeine, dyes, and organically grown if possible. But do what is comfortable for your. Don’t try to shift into a lifestyle that doesn’t fit, but be aware that the lighter you eat the lighter you will feel. – Gary Zukav • Travel seems not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. – Jan Morris • Vegetarianism is a healthier diet. – Deepak Chopra • We have been taught to “just eat a balanced diet.” We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works. – Andrew Saul • We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. – Mahatma Gandhi • We stock up on popcorn and candy like we’re crossing the Sierras, don’t we? I’ll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you’ve got there, that bucket? You don’t have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule or anything? – Oh, and a Diet Coke. – Ellen DeGeneres • We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. – Pat Williams • We’re [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It’s healthy and full of vitamins and minerals. – Jennie Finch • We’ve all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you so far. The great players go away and work on extra things. They work harder on their skills, they start having early nights and they think about their diet and training. That is what takes them to the next level. – Warren Gatland • What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. – Roger Ebert • What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population. – Ed Begley, Jr. • When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don’t need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment. – William Katt • When I’m off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can. – Henry Rollins • When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King. – Jack LaLanne • When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,–when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,–oh, then diet yourself well on biography,–the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • When travelling, I make a point of eating a proper diet no matter where I am in the world. It is getting much easier to eat a vegetarian or vegan based diet. – Gary Player • When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet. – Suzanne Somers • When you don’t use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I’m not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn’t worth it. – Laird Hamilton • When you’ve been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you’re just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium. – Chris Rock • whenever I encountered a slide show titled ‘Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds’ or ‘Celebrity Fashion Fails,’ I’d have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I’d need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity. – Merrill Markoe • Whenever you’re looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey. – Scott Adkins • While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet. – Herman Melville • Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)? – Robert Benchley • Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth. – Aristotle • Yes – I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. – Sue Townsend • Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. – Evelyn Waugh • You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don’t have a fitness or diet routine, you won’t be beautiful. – Martha Stewart • You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself. – Lea Michele • You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable. – Robert Atkins • Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood. – Ming-Dao Deng • Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss. – Ann Richards • Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. – William Shakespeare • You’re thinking I’m one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I’m not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway. – Scott Adams

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