Edna Ferber Quotes

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

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• Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Year

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Change
  • Opinions
  • Roots

• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Band
  • Never
  • Supportive

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Long
  • Faith

• You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Home
  • Know
  • Events

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

• I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Achievement

• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Mind
  • America

• Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Spiritual
  • Three
  • Tattoos

• We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Influence
  • Events
  • Escape

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • War
  • Give
  • Nobody

• This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Ugly

• Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Earth
  • Sky
  • Israel

• Something had been given back to him. And because she had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She

• It is very conceivable, that the labor of man alone laid out upon a work, requiring great skill and art to bring it to perfection, may be more productive, in value, than the labour of nature and man combined, when directed towards more simple operations and objects

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Wine
  • Grapes
  • Squeeze

• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle