#earl

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dearly #die #immortality #pay #several

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#because #cook #could #early #early age

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#challenge #date #died #even #fastest

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ↗

— George Orwell

#early #event #ever #had #i

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. ↗

— John Osborne

#character #clearly #drink #man #may

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. ↗

— Al Pacino

#coppola #cut #days #did #directions

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me. ↗

— Al Pacino

#been #career #cope #coping #early