Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
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Will the reader turn the page?
