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Shirley Knight Quotes

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: July 5, 1936

Topics

Work Reach Beyond Level Film Get

I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of years of putting up walls and putting protective layers around myself.

Myself Walls Writing Song Years Up

I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

Meghan O'Rourke

Time Day Support Saying Envy Person

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

Queen Brother Sister Wedding Lake

One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.

John Mellencamp

Good Opportunity Great Quality Said

A book is a book is a book.

After following more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of Oxford researchers found those who consume a plant-based diet were less likely to develop all forms of cancer combined.

People Diet More Years University

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

Today Lunch You Television Little

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

Work Learning World Book Loved Way

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

Ritchie Blackmore

I Can Hand Old Strings Fine Just

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

Music People Financial More Just

I think you do need two terms as a president.

Chelsea Handler

Think You President Need Two Terms

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

You Complaining Hear Jam About

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