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Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Tallulah Bankhead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1902 - December 12, 1968

Topics

Work Man Theatre Night Steady Count

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

Gratitude Experience Soul Grace Run

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

Matthew Heineman

Government Law Hands Own Fail Take

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Challenge Easy Look Try Make Stuff

I try to tell the truth.

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

Children Time Man Curious Fly News

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

Good Angry Me Bad Just Because Open

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

Allyson Schwartz

Good Passion Colleagues Dubai Nation

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

Nature Today Sports Language Long

In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'

Friendship Welcome Me Result Young

You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.

You Fame Clock Get Minutes Ticking

DiMaggio was never a rube. He was very smart and very urban. Coming out of the Great Depression, he was the immigrant boy who made it big. Coming back from World War II, he had all the wealth and power that New York aspired to. When New York saw itself as the center of the world, he was its paragon of class.

Richard Ben Cramer

Power Great Depression Smart War

I would say, in a year, I spend maybe half of that playing FIFA. I love it that much.

Love Year Say Playing Half Would

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