#hughes

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#became #booked #first #hughes #i

if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes. ↗

— Jewelle Gomez

#poetry #dreams

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#drinking #hughes #ignored #lunch #men

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #boarding #boarding school #brown #chest

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths. ↗

— John Cusack

#hearing #hip #hughes #i #john

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#checks #eighteen #getting #here #howard

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#had #huge #huge impact #hughes #impact

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#flying #god #his #howard #howard hughes

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#also #curse #dealing #did #everything

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#born #howard #howard hughes #hughes #i