Ethel Barrymore Quotes

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Ethel Barrymore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1879 - June 18, 1959

Topics

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Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

Jimmy Wales

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We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

Jim Goetz

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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

Jo Brand

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The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

Maureen O'Hara

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Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.

Angus Deaton

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I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

Amanda Tapping

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I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.

Julia Sawalha

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I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intelligent.

Derek Hough

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I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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Activision Blizzard has always been about inspiring play, competition, and community for our fans and employees, and that hasn't changed.

Bobby Kotick

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We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Antonio Tabucchi

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It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

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