Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Elizabeth Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973

Topics

ValueWritingFirstOutMustWriter

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

Jessica Chastain

GreatWalkMeGiftDoneDirector

I've had people come up to me after the show and say, 'Why did you not make fun of Pakistan?' People are actually upset you didn't talk about them.

Maz Jobrani

FunPeopleMeYouSayUpset

I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it!

Maxim Knight

WorkLoveFunCrazyHave FunVoice

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

Stephen Colbert

GirlTeacherDaySchoolStoryShort

I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league.

Romelu Lukaku

BestTeamPlayWantAttractiveMost

I always think about making a CD you can hear in your car, your house party, with wonderful energy for all.

Little Louie Vega

CarEnergyThinkYouHouseParty

No, I've only ever done one film at a time.

Christopher Nolan

TimeDoneFilmOnlyEver

If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.

Boris Johnson

OpportunityPeoplePrioritiesBack

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Pierre Corneille

PatientRemedyDiseaseAllowHeHow

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.

Svetlana Alexievich

DemocracyThingsBecauseLikeMuch

I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.

Paul Weller

MusicSoulAmazingMeSmallSuits

It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.

Paula Pell

FamilyTogetherKindSpecialTakes

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