#ld

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#british #british press #child #cruel #doing

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#i #literary #say #states #studies

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#been #diamond #ever #family #going

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#because #being #children #development #does

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#being #big #black #children #clips

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#come #i #into #like #people

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#being #consider #days #end #heart

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#any #bear #dull #fully #fully alive

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white? ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#london #our #should #white #why

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#does #facts #fanatic #knew #lord