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Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: September 10, 1885 - July 18, 1950

Topics

Write Hard Yes Harder

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

Maximillian Degenerez

Ideas Bridge Minds Presentation Gap

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

Work Responsibility Nobody See I See

I have a passion for sweaters. Besides jeans, they are the clothes I have the most of in my closet. I must have a hundred!

Passion Clothes Jeans Must Closet

I tried to make people see that I'm not someone to be put in a box. I can do it all.

People Someone I Can Box See Tried

If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.

Me Homeless End Behavior Sharing Up

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Nature Human Nature Security Human

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Age Time Talent Achieve Will

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Party Go Scholarship Class Academic

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

Time Rose Years Producer Get Made

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

Christopher Walken

Hope Kind Going Bing Bob Thing

I don't hang my championship trophies on the walls, because they don't pay the bills.

Walls Pay Hang Trophies Bills

I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting... After I was into it, I had a feeling that I was going to end up doing this anyway somehow.

Time Thought End Doing Acting Young

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