Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 1, 1897 - November 1, 1973

Topics

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I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

Jerry Hall

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To find people who don't want anything is rare.

Andrew Young

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Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Jeff Garlin

YouForgetSometimesHumanAudience

I like to keep people guessing.

Amanda Seyfried

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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Stanley Baldwin

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Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up.

Tom Colicchio

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What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.

Jovan Adepo

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I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.

Jon Oringer

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Bob Newhart, who is my best friend, is one of the guys I adore.

Don Rickles

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After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

Chris Rock

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Since my article in 'Women's Health' came out, I have had so many conversations with women about their own battles with cancer, and it feels so empowering to open up this dialogue and learn from each other.

Cobie Smulders

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Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Clarence Thomas

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