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Lillian Hellman Quotes

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Lillian Hellman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984

Topics

Failure Writing Feel You Guilty

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

Appreciate Fact Won District Fully

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Life Man Virtue Strive First Twice

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

Simple Me Jazz Out Her Approach

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Truth Research Writing Looking Know

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Steven Sinofsky

Myself Police Listening Busy Talking

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Father Down Observation Genes Passed

Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.

Michael Shnayerson

Start Sometimes Same Expert Off

Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.

Winning Process Meeting Race Mean

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Life Future Past Value You Dwell

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Congress Class First Office I Came

It's kind of crazy what I can do and what I can't do. It's simple things like rice and quinoa or salads, honestly, that I'm not great at. But I can make an osso buco that takes six hours.

Great Simple Crazy Simple Things

I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.

Tea Me Gun Human Human Being Expect

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