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Joan Greenwood Quotes

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: March 4, 1921 - February 27, 1987

Topics

Hair Survive Soup Used Wash Our

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

John Dos Passos

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Work Myself Surroundings About

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

Louie Schwartzberg

Change Moment Butterfly You Always

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

Mother Born Detroit Raised Actually

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

Chester Bennington

Myself Reflection Experience Writing

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

Myself I Am Proud Black White Actor

I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You'd never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he's just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv.

Great Man Think Questions You Say

Wrestling is second nature: I've been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone's leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs.

Nature Someone Doing Long Looks

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Funny World Perception You Sometimes

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

Myself I Am Dark Person Consider Am

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.

Father Truth Humility Loved You See

All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.

Murray Rothbard

Action More Exchange State Attempt

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