Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Boothe Luce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1903 - October 9, 1987

Topics

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At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

Jenny Mollen

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

John Green

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The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Andrew Motion

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Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.

Andy Serkis

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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals.

Sue Hubbell

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I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

Mary Roach

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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron

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Yes, Adam Sandler is a good kisser, and other actresses have said the same thing to me. They've come up to me - other actresses who've kissed him - and said, 'Hey, so good, right?'

Brooklyn Decker

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Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

Bruce Forsyth

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When I was preparing 'Kiss Me, Kate,' I did go to the Museum of Broadcasting and watched an old kinescope of Alfred Drake doing the role on a television special. It was interesting, but I didn't feel any need to try to copy him.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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