Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
J. C. Watts
Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
Gabrielle Union
I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.
Jack Lowden
When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.
Randy Pausch
...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
Cormac McCarthy
If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
Matt Lauer
Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.
Jenna Elfman
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!
Selma Lagerlof
I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. I also deeply believe in human rights.
David Duke
Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning anymore. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist
writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.
Arnold Wesker
Never waste a crisis.
Mark Rutte
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen