#ene

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#bette davis #davis #grew #i #marilyn

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#any #happened #i #know #mom

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lot #people #read #threatened #who

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#any #childhood #did #ever #felt

When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

#did #film #go #haven #hurry

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#ago #aids #came #capacity #challenges

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. ↗

— Pierre Jean de Beranger

#better #between #certainly #decide #difference

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#before #bill #book #buffalo #enough