William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
Natalie Massenet
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
Sabine Baring-Gould
For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
Madchen Amick
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Hamlin Garland
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
Taye Diggs
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
Saffron Burrows
I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.
Lauren Socha
It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
Alexandra Potter
I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.
Nicholas Gonzalez
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells
