#shed

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? ↗

— Patty Duke

#ago #am #books #close #did

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#began #british #entering #felt #first

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#absolute #appalling #capable #charity #degree

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#bob #ever #finished #getting #good

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#everybody #finished #first #flick #houston

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#another #beginning #clear #could #done

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. ↗

— Abba Eban

#first #history #i #i think #morrow

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream! ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#another #auditioned #dream #finished #first

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#been #big #couple #finished #great

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#first #heart #his #piece #praise