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Dorothy Gilman Quotes

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 25, 1923 - February 2, 2012

Topics

Dreams Food People Need Nourishment

One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

Me Night Gun Buildings Soldiers Out

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

Love Pain Husband Make Before Takes

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

War Book Honor Follow Marine Corps

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Men Peace Ambition Present Striving

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

Great Blessing Reality Project Own

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

Best Ideas Genius Discovery Come

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

Process More Audience Dialogue

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

Time Unconscious He Much Did Very

I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

Yourself Regret Care Better You

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

People Say Want Movies More Big

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Mom Listening Jazz Everyone Radio

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Jason Schwartzman

Best Dating People Game Think You

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