Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston), handing an assignment:
"We don't need it fast, but we need it right… But we need it fast."
Episode 1.8
Written by Aaron Sorkin
The Frustrated CFO comment:
Bull's-eye, Mr. Sorkin! Bravo!
Category: Quotes
Quote of the Week: The Bloody Truth of “True Blood”
“One of the worst things about being immortal is having to watch the same stupid scenario to happen over and over. It’s usually humans, though. Guess, this proves that we are just as fucking retarded as they are.”
Pam (Episode 5.12, Written by Alan Ball)
The Frustrated CFO Comment:
I have to say, I’ve been a fan of Alan’s balls ever since “American Beauty,” all through “Six Feet Under” and beyond. But one cannot deny the fact that unnatural settings and bizarre circumstances of “True Blood” give the man a special kind of freedom of expression.
And he doesn’t stop at bold statements like the one above. He also gives us little snappy gifts: Jason Stackhouse’s “that train has sailed” is almost as brilliant as Biff Tannen’s “make like a tree and go.”
Quote of the Week: What Makes a Mass-Market Bestseller
"Back at home they drew the curtains and read with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee – even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage reading."
The Blind Assassin
Winner of the Booker Prize
Quote of the Week: Women of Power as Mothers
"Do yourself a favor… don't have kids… Ruins you ambitions, keeps you from what you want in life… I'm not a good mother… Kids are like clients, they want all of you, all the time. Don't get me wrong. I love my son… Love's nothing, love's easy. They come out of you, you love them. What you do after – that's the hard part."
Damages, Season 1, episode 1
Written by Todd Kessler,
Glenn Kessler, Daniel Zelman
The Frustrated CFO's comments:
I watched this and thought, "Wow! This is hard core. You cannot dismiss the truth here." A couple of episodes later Patty ships her disobedient and rebellious son to a Reform Academy. He is snatched away kidnapping-style. She is all about efficiency and getting her way.
Can women have it all? No, they can't. Not, if they want a glorious career and "ideal" children. There is no such thing as an "ideal" child. They are humans, not dolls, and just as fallible as their parents. And the career? Please… there is always something.
What women can have are two zebras (if they are lucky!): white stripe is followed by the black one, and so on, and so forth. Ups and downs at work, good and bad times with kids – the hard life… and that's if no real tragedies happen.
Quote of the Week: The Mechanics of a Tortured Soul
"The Idler Wheel Is Wiser
Than the Driver of the Screw
And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More
Than Ropes Will Ever Do."
Fiona Apple
The Frustrated CFO 