Laurence Housman Quotes

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Laurence Housman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 18, 1865 - February 20, 1959

Topics

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When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

Joanne Froggatt

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I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

John Paul DeJoria

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I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

Robert Sheckley

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A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.

John Sandford

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Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

Rumaan Alam

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I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

Rosie O'Donnell

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I'm obsessed with working out. I eat like a pig, so it kind of makes up for that.

Millie Bobby Brown

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I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dikembe Mutombo

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Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.

Dick Dale

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My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

Brandi Chastain

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Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

Rick Perry

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The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

Mario Cuomo

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