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Lillian Hellman Quotes

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Lillian Hellman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Advice Talking Young Say

Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.

Today Villain You Back Rise Heroes

You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.

Smart Think Comedy You Wrong Dumb

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

Change Music Poetry Writing Song

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

Martin Winterkorn

Growth Expectations Automobile Market

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

Michelle Malkin

Eating Road Political Media House

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Beginning Slow Guitar Go Going

I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

Faith Succeed Energy Think Worry

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Think Want Become Distractions Any

You've got to be able to let things roll off your back, and you've got to have some patience.

Patience You Back Things Roll Off

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

Music Freedom Amazing Me Want Kind

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Music Heart Great Art Me Appreciate

You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

Home Women Men Door You Party

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