#ld

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#admired #arnold #bennett #deathbed #father

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#control freak #day #direct #freak #good

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#constraints #could #essence #film #make

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#back #citizens #coming #contemplating #heard

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. ↗

— Max Lerner

#always #believe #evil #find #honorable

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#boils #children #down #education #every

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anguish #everybody #feels #going #i