#who

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me! ↗

— Loretta Young

#actress #criticize #find #i #job

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it. ↗

— Loretta Young

#career #course #crystallized #determination #resume

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#college #did #discover #find #got

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#case #death #discovered #gowns #had

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#anyone #attacked #ever #him #i

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#away #because #been #called #decent

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#doomed #either #i #man #myself

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #certainly #emulate #hand #i

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#america #annie #anything #before #chaplin