Katharine Cornell Quotes

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Katharine Cornell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1893 - June 9, 1974

Topics

BeginningHappyThinkNervousMore

I'm a stand-up comic, but I also have ideas, and I want to get them out. People think getting in front of the mic is the only way to work out. You've got to try different situations.

Joey Diaz

WorkPeopleIdeasThinkYouWant

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

Johannes Rau

YouCreateMoreFairQuestionYears

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

Maurice Flanagan

WorkPeopleBetterWalkingFindWay

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

Matt Drudge

DayInternetLadyNewsDoneOne Day

Anyone can be James Dean for a day.

Michael Bastian

DayJames DeanAnyoneJamesDean

I love my work - it's what I know how to do best.

Amanda Donohoe

WorkLoveBestKnowHowI Love

We went to L.A. as a family, with a sort of vision that we were going to 'make it,' whatever that meant.

Summer Phoenix

FamilyVisionWhateverGoingMake

Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.

Sirio Maccioni

BornPastaFreshCriticOurHad

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Smokey Robinson

MoneyDiamondsHumanMaterialistic

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

Rodney Stark

WorldKnowRunNeverOldYears

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.

Chris Stapleton

DoingEasyCountryTryWriteWell

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

Philip Yancey

FreedomTrustPeopleFreeThinkEnd

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