Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Anna Howard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1847 - July 2, 1919

Topics

LifeGrowthTruthMenProgressBack

L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.

Joe Perry

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For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

Jessie Matthews

TimeDancePerfectNumbersPlayBig

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

John Rowland

ChildrenReadingEverythingWell

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Steve Irwin

WorldBelieveI BelieveSameWhole

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Rosamund Pike

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Poetry is meant to be heard.

Mary Oliver

PoetryMeant To BeHeardMeant

I really only have a few friends.

Milla Jovovich

FriendsOnlyFewReally

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

Jonathan Tropper

WorkExperiencePeopleDiscomfort

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

Demi Lovato

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I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.

Chris Evans

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I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

Bobby Cannavale

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It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

Apolo Ohno

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