Tennessee Williams Quotes

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Tennessee Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983

Topics

WorkSuccessFailureI AmMeNight

It never was my plan to get into television.

Jimmy Kimmel

PlanTelevisionNeverGet

In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

MusicPeopleEndHelpOutLittle

I was born and raised right outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Ann McKee

BrainRunDifferentNumberBanks

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

Stephen Merchant

DarknessSoulBlueBraveWishDark

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

Roger Altman

ThinkingBetterBiggerBigJust

I once bought a $150,000 car just because my friends told me to. Not because I wanted it. Because they told me to.

Rolando McClain

CarMeFriendsJust BecauseJust

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Michelle Shocked

NeverPointGetDealTriedFew

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Millicent Fawcett

EducationWomenPresentPolitical

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

Liu Xiang

HurdlesHighUsedYoungerBefore

In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can't complain.

Jon Tenney

LoveMeLuckThinkYouRun

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Dora Russell

WisdomGuidanceOfferingHeeded

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christy Mathewson

WomanTrainingSpringLooksYoung

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