Lillie Langtry Quotes

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

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• If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Different
  • Home
  • House

• There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Wonder
  • Story
  • Train

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Literature

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Audience

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• 'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Movie

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Creativity

• Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Nature
  • Mistakes
  • Goalkeeper

• When I was quite young, as far back as I remember, I drew, but the gift is nothing without the will to make it worth while. The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Remember
  • Water
  • Rock

• I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.

  

  John Berger
  • Life

• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Father
  • Me
  • King

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

  

  Jimmy Wales

• I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Life
  • Lonely