They also say that advice is what we ask for when we know what we need to do and we just don't want to admit it.
I got some great advice from the funny love story The Holiday. A venerated screen writer (who often speaks in screenwriting lingo) tells a young woman that she is acting like the best friend and she shouldn't be. She is the leading lady of her own life and needs to act like it. It's corny as hell but reminding myself that I'm the leading person in my life has given me a lot of strength and reminded me that only I can find my happiness.
Arthur Abbott: Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend. Iris: You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained things to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.
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I got some great advice from the funny love story The Holiday. A venerated screen writer (who often speaks in screenwriting lingo) tells a young woman that she is acting like the best friend and she shouldn't be. She is the leading lady of her own life and needs to act like it. It's corny as hell but reminding myself that I'm the leading person in my life has given me a lot of strength and reminded me that only I can find my happiness.
Arthur Abbott: Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained things to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.
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