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Harriet Van Horne Quotes

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

Harriet Van Horne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 17, 1920 - January 15, 1998

Topics

History Riding Broadcasting Been Few

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

Andrew Rannells

Age Early Actor More Broadway Knew

I like Church furniture.

Church Furniture Like

I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I haven't done them.

Teacher Job Bad Know Done Never

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

Problems Present You New Nothing

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Today Universe Own Last Our Refuge

At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

Mary Steenburgen

Mirror Wife People Mom Crazy Deep

Anytime a member of Congress wants to travel abroad - which we do from time to time as part of our official duties - we are required to check with the House Committee on Ethics as to whether the trip follows the ethics rules by which federally elected officials are bound. Not so with Supreme Court justices.

Time Travel Ethics House Rules

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

Mother Loved Her Like

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

Work Day Every Day Bear Garbage Us

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

People Ready Only

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Jason Calacanis

People Problem Media Trying Craft

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

Good Great Career Years Some Roles

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