Top 13 Famous Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
#1. I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.
Maude Adams
#3. A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
Charles Dickens
#4. Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
Gary Krist
#5. I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
Paula Hawkins
#6. The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
James Mill
#7. People who have failed at Christianity aren't likely to make great Buddhists.
Robertson Davies
#8. Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
Cybill Shepherd
#9. The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.
Isabel Allende
#10. I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
John Hughes
#11. And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.
John Osborne
#12. You're too skinny."
I could almost laugh. "Yeah, well. The restaurants in the Wilds are mostly closed. They're mostly bombed, actually.
Lauren Oliver
#13. You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.
Paul A. Volcker
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