Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.

Harry Dean Stanton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 14, 1926

Topics

MenFamousGoGo For ItMoreReason

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

John Catsimatidis

BusinessMoneyWorldEndWorthBack

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

GirlManThinkOld ManYearYou

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenMeThinkBetterYouWrite

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

WorkTimeOverInterestUsStill

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

Michael Chabon

GoodWordsMemoryRememberYouKnow

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

Stephen Fry

AdmireThingGenerally

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

Sophia Amoruso

WorkWork HardRecognitionYouHard

By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.

Stan Wawrinka

FightPeopleGrowing UpAchieveWant

Songwriting is my gift from God.

Smokey Robinson

GodGiftSongwriting

Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

Simon Mainwaring

SupportRetirementBehaviorBetter

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Ronald Frame

TimePeopleMeFaceTreesShort

I'm a human entropy producer.

Dean Kamen

HumanProducerEntropy

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