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Mary McCarthy Quotes

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1912 - October 25, 1989

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Art Brother People Dinner Wealth

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

Freedom Day People Victory Elections

Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.

Meir Soloveichik

Life Children Raising Children Living

A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.

People Think Doing You Understand

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

Monica Bellucci

Good Great You Never Director Going

I feel blessed that I was gifted.

Blessed Feel Gifted I Feel

The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

Now YouTube Individual Own Level Us

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.

Me Body Everyone Bone Who Knows

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Marriage Myself Poetry Book Tragedy

When I was a kid in the business, you always had in the back of your head this feeling that if I screw up, I might be fired. So you went out every night and tore your rear end up to make sure that you gave the best performance you can and learning constantly because you never had that idea of 'I'm so great, I'm never going to be fired.'

Learning Business Great Best Night

There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.

Great Talent I Am Early Just Because

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

People Story You Go Actor Become

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Grief Belief First Patterns Destroy

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