Edna Ferber Quotes

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968

Topics

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I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'

Jimmy Fallon

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I am a football fan, yeah.

Joe Namath

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I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

John C. Calhoun

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Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.

John Gregory Dunne

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What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that.

Melvyn Bragg

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When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

Meat Loaf

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The entertainment is in the presentation.

John McTiernan

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We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

Robert Lanza

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All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

Jeff Miller

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I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.

Aneurin Barnard

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Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

Sturgill Simpson

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The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

Luis Gutierrez

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