Lyle Kessler Quotes
'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.Lyle Kessler
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones -
I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
Samantha Isler -
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
Ian Rush -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
Oliver Reed
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
Valerie Plame -
Democracy is not about one party dominating.
Ed Townsend -
There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
Carl Honore -
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
J. R. R. Tolkien -
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
Oliver North -
'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
Vincent Bugliosi
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist -
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
Rachel Zoe -
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
Jack Charlton -
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope -
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
Charles Perrault -
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
Friedrich Engels -
'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
Lyle Kessler