Hume Cronyn Quotes

#1. He hunched his shoulders and looked at the floor. With that movement, he entered the past. When he put on his jacket, kissed me again, and walked to the door, he was already a memory.

Siri Hustvedt

#2. Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

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#3. I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

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#4. To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

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#5. I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.

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#6. I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.

Harry Reid

#7. I don't mind playing absolute bastards ... I just don't want to play the grouch.

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#8. I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

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#9. People love watching crazy expeditions

Matt Prior

#10. Every kid has it tough. Being a little person in a big world with nobody taking you very seriously is tough.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

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#12. The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

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#13. To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

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#14. If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.

David Shore

#15. I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

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#16. Daring life, graceful living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

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#18. I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.

Katie Jacobs Stanton

#19. I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

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#20. Dana taught me that the ability to grieve deeply also meant that a person had the capacity to love deeply, laugh deeply, live deeply
and that this was a capacity to be cherished.

Melanie Benjamin