#ken

The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to her the enjoyment he was having in writing this Drood book for serialisation, this upstart of a girl had the temerity to ask, 'But suppose you died before all the book was written?' [...] He spoke very softly in his kindest voice and said to her, 'One can only work on, you know--work while it is day. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#charles-dickens #death #old-age #work #writing

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#away #basic #basic things #being #duped

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich. ↗

— Viola Davis

#be different #behind #dialogue #different #eyes

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match. ↗

— Dixie Dean

#england #full #german #had #i

I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in. ↗

— Elizabeth Debicki

#age #ballet #children #dancer #dancers

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. ↗

— James Dean

#boo #character #chickens #cows #develop

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#kennedy #art

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#did #especially #i #i love #love

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#fairy tales #family #father #had #how

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness