Shelby Foote Quotes

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

Shelby Foote

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 17, 1916 - June 27, 2005

Topics

SuccessAdversityExperienceThink

A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.

John Christopher

KnowExpectMightLabelHeShould

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

Andrew Dominik

PowerOrganizationCriminalJustHe

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

Ann Macbeth

MovingNowAuthorityWillMoreFilm

One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.

Michael Imperioli

MoneyJobMistakesEarlyActing

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

Stavros Niarchos

OilCoalHeWantsStokeRegulate

I welcome a scrutiny of my entire record.

Robert Wilkie

WelcomeScrutinyRecordEntire

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

Lucas Papademos

BondTemporaryShouldMarkets

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

Christina Ricci

SmallInterestingNothingSameJust

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

ColorLogicDrawingYouMoreReason

South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'

Sydney Pollack

HomeYouKnowNiceBendHomesick

I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.

Pep Guardiola

LearnWantPossibleMuch

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Rick Reilly

StoryNobodyWriteSeeGoingAnyone

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