Kitty Carlisle Quotes

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

Kitty Carlisle

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• When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Important
  • She
  • Man

• I don't like attacking.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Like
  • Attacking

• My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Theatre
  • Grandparents
  • Uncle

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• The world is no longer against us.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Against
  • U.S.

• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• I've always had very catholic tastes.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Always
  • Catholic
  • Very

• For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

  

  Yuna
  • Myself
  • Let Go
  • Insecurities

• Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Love
  • Night
  • Ahead

• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victory
  • Give
  • Peaceful

• I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Light

• When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Way
  • You
  • Got

• I’m literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Children
  • Leaving

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Dream
  • Song

• You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • World
  • Solitude

• By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

  

  Eric Flint
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

  

  Josephine de La Baume
  • Charisma
  • Unconventional
  • Lauren

• I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Character

• Every year we have said that our goal is just to get there (to the championship). We've accomplished what we wanted to do and there's nothing that would make us all happier than seeing that 2006 banner hanging in our gym. We struggled offensively tonight to put the ball in the basket, but our defense was good enough to win it and we'll see what happens Sunday.

  

  Chuck Miller
  • Goal
  • Ball
  • Championship

• I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

  

  Kitty Carlisle