Merrill Markoe Quotes
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.
My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.
Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.
our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.
They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.
It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.
Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.
Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.
Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.
The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.
The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.
I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.
Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.
As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.
When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.
I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.
I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.