Doris Eaton Travis Quotes

Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.

Doris Eaton Travis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 14, 1904 - May 11, 2010

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I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Jim Henson

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As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

Jochen Zeitz

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Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

John Carroll Lynch

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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Anatole Broyard

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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

John Owen

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I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

Robert H. Grubbs

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I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Chet Atkins

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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Bobby Bowden

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It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.

Bruce Forsyth

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My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Anthony Horowitz

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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.

Anne Enright

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