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Richard Eyre Quotes

I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.

Richard Eyre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: March 28, 1943

Topics

Bird Eye Story View You Understand

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Me Important Young More Seem Sacred

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

John Burdett

Money Think American Winner Paris

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Joey McIntyre

Know English Scottish Accents How

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.

John Lewis

King Colors Library Trying Down Out

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

Ocean Collaboration Cold Farm More

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

Stephen Moyer

Atheist Out Used Bit Chilled

When we assume that 'normal' people need 'time to heal,' or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more after a loss, as some grief counselors do, we may be giving inappropriate advice. Such advice can cause people who feel ready to move on to wonder if they are hardhearted.

Stephanie Coontz

Time Grief People Advice Loss Year

Do what is best for most people, not just a few. Prevent your elites and growing middle class, those who often benefit most from growth and development, from turning into a special interests group that blocks reforms.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Growth Best People Growing Group

If you want to look right now under Obama who our enemies are, just look at who he is nice to.

Ron DeSantis

You Look Nice Now Want Right

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judges Office Avoid Candidate Public

The economics of life is against the family.

Ruby Dee

Life Family Economics Against

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

Michael Landon

People Laugh Cry Want Sit Stare