If you’re looking for a behind-the-scenes rock-n-roll biography, pick up Nikki Sixx’s ‘The Heroin Diaries’. If you want the world’s most narcissistic high school yearbook, however, ‘First Step 2 Forever’ is your new bicycle.
All of the narration in ‘Smile’ is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you’ve put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don’t do that now.
I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element… on ‘The Vampire Diaries.’
I always have a notebook – I have kept diaries since I was eight years old. My preferred choice is a Moleskine because they have a pocket at the back where I can keep airline tickets and my passport.
I’ve always used diaries to pour out my feelings at the end of each day, as a sort of therapy.
People still say to me, ‘What, you still live in Mexico?’ I don’t have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don’t have to stop what I’m doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats ‘The Motorcycle Diaries?’
Weezer’s ‘El Scorcho.’ I’m in a ’90s cover band called ‘Straight 2 Video’ with members of the crew from ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I’m singing and it feels heavy, but not always.
I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I’m not. It’s like people reading their diaries in public. I don’t want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.
The people I worked for before I was doing ‘Vampire Diaries’ were very generous to me.
There seems to be a feeling we need Klaus to be in ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ surely and partially because of the Klaus and Caroline dynamic, but many people love the character. They want to see more of the character, but people really have a tendency to fear the unknown.
I think that with ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ you never know what’s going to happen, and I don’t think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to ‘kill or be killed.’
‘Carrie Diaries’ is very heartfelt and earnest in a lot of ways.
I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
As someone who watched ‘The Vampire Diaries’ when I was 10 or 11, getting to be Miss Mystic Falls was very surreal for me.
If I could separate ‘The Originals’ from ‘The Vampire Diaries’ in a nutshell, I’d say that ‘The Vampire Diaries’ is more coming-of-age, and we’re more these monsters reveling in who they are and what they are.
‘Dirt Road Diaries,’ in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I’m excited for the fans to hear that one.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with ‘Princess Diaries’ in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
‘The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
I don’t keep diaries anymore; They’re quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
I’m sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
The most dazzling aspect of ‘Possession’ is Ms. Byatt’s canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince’s archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
I’ve always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.
‘Motorcycle Diaries’ had the best costumes – that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It’s all for the kids.
I think the best thing I can say about it – and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really – is that ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible.
Music was never just a hobby for me. I’d pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
‘Carrie Diaries’ was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something I wanted to work on. It was very charming, and there’s a lot of heart to it. It was touching and nostalgic and relatable, and it validates so many coming-of-age issues in an open and honest way. I think it speaks to real life.
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