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Maureen O'Sullivan Quotes

Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.

Maureen O'Sullivan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 17, 1911 - June 23, 1998

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Me Thought Doing Fast Done Way

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

Joanne Harris

Work Mother Me You Want Up

I play a certain style. I'm not willing to compromise that part of me.

Megan Rapinoe

Style Me Compromise Play Willing

As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the way I do with Harry Bosch.

Michael Connelly

Character Think Way Would Reporter

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

Strength Character Courage Society

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

Steven Bauer

Hope Growing Up Growing Next Up

Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

Mary Balogh

Success Writing Book Plan Year Back

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

Minoru Yamasaki

Believe Situation Understand Economy

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

Jason Bateman

Production Costume Exciting Composers

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

Clint Eastwood

Mother People Me Ask Always Make

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

Brad Carson

Stand Know Want Vote Up Bring

All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.

Bryan Fogel

Best Think Comedy I Can Rock Where

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Excellence Communism Strong Weak