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Thornton Wilder Quotes

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975

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Good Moment World Know Danger Must

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

Me Blame Grandmother Become Actress

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

Me World You Know Important Say

I don't relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was something I had to figure out really early on, when I was at RADA, because I was being cast, over and over again, as the young, virginal thing. When I left RADA, I was on an absolute mission to never wear make-up.

Andrea Riseborough

Myself People Me Mission Look Early

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.

Think Artist Hubris Him Recognize

I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Work Hard Work History Me Writing

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Philosophy Development Contradiction

I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

History Ideas Thought Literature

I am always on the women's side.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Women I Am Always Side Am

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.

Misty May-Treanor

College Think Village Over Partying

If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you'll get it tomorrow. It's easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you've done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Yourself Tomorrow Pressure Easy You

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.

Truth Knowledge Together I Am Think

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