Theres probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to. – Diablo Cody
I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I dont know why. I dont think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think shes a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go. – Diablo Cody
Theres a weird cloud around you when youre recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments. – Diablo Cody
Speaking of Twitter, I dont even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app! – Diablo Cody
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates