Leon Edel Quotes

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Leon Edel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1907 - September 5, 1997

Topics

LifeHouseFadeThroughWhoInner

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.

Jessie Buckley

StrengthPeopleMeFactsHonest

For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.

Jessica St. Clair

LoveLiveMePerformanceNewDone

I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'

Jenna Blum

ExperienceMomWeatherNightTornado

All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.

Michael Ignatieff

LifeChangeBestPoliticsPeople

I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.

Trinny Woodall

Mixture

I sing Broadway stuff in the shower, mostly.

Rita Moreno

ShowerBroadwaySingStuffMostly

I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor because he's a guy who's had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity - and inspired creativity.

Bobby Kotick

SuccessFatherBusinessGreatThink

Of course it would be wonderful for Hillary Clinton to be the first female president, but I think she would be the first to say that she wouldn't want people to vote for her just because she's a woman.

Anna Wintour

WomanPeopleThinkJust BecauseVote

When I was 6 years old, I played on a coed indoor team. We were called the Cosmos. And then, after that, when I was 7, I played on an all-girls club team.

Ali Krieger

TeamOldYearsClubCosmosAfter

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Pierre Corneille

ForceWhereGentlenessLegitimate

Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

Sharon Shinn

FamilyFictionThemesRecurring

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

Twyla Tharp

AgeStrangeDancersThing

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