Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 6, 1906 - March 14, 2001

Topics

StrengthVisionCreativeLiterature

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

Jo Brand

I AmNameYouArtistKnowHip-Hop

We are mortgaging our future.

Joan Blades

FutureOur

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

Jo Brand

FunnyThoughtPlayKidCottonTie

Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.

Joel Grey

LifeManNightMy LifeWeekGay

I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.

Michael Easton

Letting GoGoSeeJustABCSoaps

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Martin Sheen

JusticeSocial JusticeFirstSocial

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Josephine de La Baume

MusicCreativeWritingDirection

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Jared Polis

BusinessWorldLookingYouAhead

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

FirstGotFilmPaidGrandLowest

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

Jon Brion

PeoplePersonStreamOverSomething

My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.

Chris Young

SongStorySomeoneFeelingWhyOut

You have the most fun, and love is best, when it's just wrong enough to feel good.

Ashley McBryde

LoveGoodBestFunLove IsEnough

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