“ I studied with Robert Morss Lovett, the great professor of epic literature. Another important influence was Ronald S. Crane, a professor of aesthetics at the University of Chicago. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ I have an aunt Pat, and she was the celebrity of my childhood. She had a bunch of husbands and would swear, and she dated Robert Goulet. ”
- Andy Richter- Copy
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“ It's true that I did get the girl but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then. ”
- Lyle Lovett- Copy
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“ To work with Robert De Niro was like a dream come true. He' s such a nice person to be around, and I learned something from him everyday. ”
- Dakota Fanning- Copy
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“ He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife. ”
- Baghdad Betty- Copy
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“ we need to abandon the idea that wisdom is knowing everything — the whys, the wherefores, the how-tos. Wisdom is often more subtle, both far simpler and exceedingly more complex. For wisdom requires the discerning, the listening to, the acknowledgement of nudges and notions, of senses and sensations, of the minute and what we often mistakenly assume is the mundane… ”
- Jean M. Blomquist- Copy
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“ The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value may yet somehow win the coveted jackpot, is feverish and incessant. Last year's authors are pushed aside and this year'she novelist Jean Stafford, her poet husband Robert Lowell, or the dark horse, Truman Capotere invariably mentioned… ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ When I'm thinking of myself in a good light, I think of myself as a character actor, like Peter Sellers or Alec Guiness or Robert Duvall or George Kennedy or Joe Don Baker, all those big Nordic actors. But I always thought of it as a supporting role. And I don't have a problem with that, because I ain't no leadin' man… ”
- Andy Richter- Copy
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“ Robert called me and said, I'm gonna be working with this guy Conan O'Brien who's taking over Letterman's show. Do you wanna meet him, maybe get a job as a writer on the show? And I said yeah, I'm tired of eating baloney. I had started to apply for day jobs, which up till that point I had been able to avoid for three years, you know, waiting on tables or whatever. ”
- Andy Richter- Copy
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“ The Kennedys, they were great… I always admired President John Kennedy very much. He had a marvelous personality. A great, strong face to paint, too. Robert Kennedy was the one, though, I guess I enjoyed painting the most. His hair fascinated me… ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
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“ I got a phone call from a Twentieth Century-Fox producer… asking me to go to Hollywood to paint pictures of the stars… the commisssion was to paint portraits of nine stars-Ann-Margret, Bing Crosby, Robert Cummigs, Van Heflin, Mike Connors, Alex Cord, Slim Pickens, Stefanie Powers, and Red Buttons… painting six of them is a lot of work… ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
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“ There was a certain amount of frustration because I thought - and I don't know if this was really true or not - but I thought all everyone wanted me to do was bad guys and villains. That's not me. I'm a normal guy just like everybody else. I'm an actor and I can do other things, too… ”
- Robert Patrick- Copy
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“ It's like you can't imagine that you're sitting next to this person. I just did a movie with Denzel Washington, then one with Mike Meyers and Robert DeNiro, and you can't imagine that you're actually within range of this person. So it's kinda like, Am I sure I'm not dreaming? ”
- Dakota Fanning- Copy
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“ When I went to Broadway in the mid-sixties, everybody was trying to emulate Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and here I was kind of the wholesome 'All-American Boy' from the mid-west with the big toothy smile; so I kind of stood out - a rare kind of a thing for that kind of venue. ”
- John Davidson- Copy
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“ For many people, the Escambia Bay Bridge in Pensacola is the enduring image of the hurricanes. The picture of that broken bridge with the haunting shell of Robert Alvarado's 18-wheeler was seen around the world as a symbol of Florida's devastation and despair. ”
- Jeb Bush- Copy
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“ What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day. ”
- Julia Roberts- Copy
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