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Ben Hecht Quotes

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964

Topics

Woman Name Hollywood Thirty Who Any

My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

Father Service Job Me Society You

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

Stephen Collins

Myself Angry Me Help Late Person

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

Stephen R. George

First Two Books Effect Actually

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Yourself You Will Try Listen Out

In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'

People America You Say First Thing

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

Me Artist Place Try Changes See

I always wear some make-up, even on quiet days when I am not doing so much with my time. I like to start using Dolce & Gabbana Perfect Finish Creamy Foundation as a base, as it's lighter than air and doesn't make me feel 'caked.'

Monica Bellucci

Time I Am Me Start Foundation Doing

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.

Business Music Path Time Loved Nice

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Time Travel Friends Person Nowhere

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

Inevitable Nothing Relationships

I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.

Life Perfection Ideas Performance

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Science Day Man Pride Reality Know

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