Horton Foote Quotes

I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years later. Tennessee Williams did that all the time, and it's distressing, because I'd like the play to be out there in its finished form.

Horton Foote

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 14, 1916 - March 4, 2009

Topics

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I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

Jimmy Carr

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In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.

John Fleming

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The day will happen whether or not you get up.

John Ciardi

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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For me, it's my work - I have a job, and that job happens to be with insanely talented actors. At this stage, it's normal to me. But when I meet new people, I realise, 'Oh, yeah, it's actually really strange. I have a very unique hobby.'

Angourie Rice

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Maybe when I'm done fighting, I'll open a gym and manage fighters and train fighters.

Michael Bisping

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Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

Stephen Graham Jones

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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan

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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Martin Scorsese

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Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Mike Huckabee

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What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

Millicent Fawcett

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Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Milos Forman

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