Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RestLongRunFirstNowhereWriters

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Jim Morrison

LoveFateYouOwnCannotYour

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

Joanna Trollope

WayWriteOrderlyRatherActually

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

Matt Dillon

PressureYoungActorEverythingLot

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Jeanne Moreau

AloneNeedAbsolutely

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

WalkGolfAmericaYouFindAirport

I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.

Rooney Mara

LiveMomentBelieveAppreciateBack

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

Mary Cheney

Gay1980sTeenagersRoleRole Models

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch

LifeTodayPastSocietyBetterWay

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Craig Ferguson

BestManSingingThoughtLongNice

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

Brendan Coyle

WritingNewMoreRootedPlays

Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I was offered all the time.

Arjun Rampal

TimeRomanticMeChoicesCareer

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Anthony Hopkins

GrowBoyGrow UpUpUsGet

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