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Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 5, 1884 - August 27, 1969

Topics

Me Youth Giving Without Anything

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

Me Mad Call Irritating Just Did

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

Mother Art Me Genius You Museum

Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

John Kricfalusi

Years Gone Been Still Even He

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

Time War Cold Motivation Remember

Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it.

Smart People Doing Smart People Task

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

Me Him See Seventies Dealer Mine

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Michele Bachmann

Money Political Corruption You Pay

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

Teacher Influence Opinion Doctor Eye

My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.

Music College Me Doing Hobby Acting

I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

Claudia Schiffer

Love Me Modeling Want Will Because

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

Love Hope Same Earn Audience Earned

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

Black And White I Am Black White Old

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