E. W. Howe Quotes

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

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• I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Better
  • Politicians

• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Place

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Years
  • Better
  • Consistency

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Americans

• I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Feeling

• What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Hate
  • Better
  • Author

• When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Better

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Best

• I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Remember
  • Best
  • Thought

• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Charity

• I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Best
  • Anything
  • Absolute

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

  

  Michael Tolkin
  • Father
  • Successful
  • Hard

• The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

  

  Cynthia Weil
  • Different
  • Business
  • Today

• I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • She
  • Mother
  • Sister

• Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Trying
  • Humanity

• Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Done
  • Best
  • Better