Bel Kaufman Quotes

A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Voice
  • Credit

• A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Teacher
  • Dog
  • Theory

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • Difficult
  • Lord

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Book

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Ridiculous
  • Drive
  • Fast

• Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Help
  • Always
  • Yourself

• I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Home
  • Think

• My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Going

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Night
  • Speak

• Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • May
  • Evil
  • Heaven

• Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Good
  • Look
  • Russia

• I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
  • Great

• For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Things
  • Function

• I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

  

  George Nethercutt
  • America
  • History
  • Free

• A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Reason
  • Marriage
  • Being