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Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

I remember yelling at my mother one time, horribly. I was in tenth grade or something like that, and I hadn't done something, and she misunderstood because my stepfather told her something that was wrong that I hadn't done.

Kenneth Lonergan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: October 16, 1962

Topics

Mother Time Remember Wrong Done She

People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.

Joanne Liu

People Organization Tough Say Blunt

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

Angela Duckworth

Women Grit Without Up Would Really

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.

Alyssa Milano

Age Men Well Italian Learned Very

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

Mike White

Feel I Can Person Nice Nice Person

I was training in an old garage - just a roof. And when its snowed, it would cover the floor, so I would have to clear this first. I didn't have a punch bag. There was no place to buy it, so I managed to get a speed ball, but it didn't have the swivel mechanism, so I just nailed it to the ceiling and started kicking.

Mirko Cro Cop

Training Bag Speed Place First Roof

My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.

Derek Walcott

Family Father Mother Brother Sister

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

Deborah Tannen

Women Men Book Attention You Stop

A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

Che Guevara

Think Political Young Intelligent

My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Words Me Action Class Out Hiding

I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.

Alice Waters

Food Together Me Someone Meal Well

It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.

Paul Weller

Music Age Myself Me You Artist

While we were there, we saw first-hand the senseless violence and destruction from terrorist groups that have repeatedly called for the end of Israel. These kinds of attacks are an unfortunate part of everyday life for the Israeli people.

Scott Garrett

Life People End Violence Everyday