The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in ‘City Boy,’ the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the ‘New York Review of Books,’ and good friends of mine in France got very angry. Edmund White Read Quote
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven’t a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I’ve had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. Alphonse Karr Read Quote
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. Lech Walesa Read Quote
I made my debut very early and a lot of things happened to me at a young age, but I was there for the best time in Barcelona’s history and played with the best players in the world. Bojan Krkic Read Quote
I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me. Alden Ehrenreich Read Quote
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. Bill Veeck Read Quote
My Norwegian family says, ‘You’re the most grounded American we’ve ever met.’ Celeste Holm Read Quote
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them. Charles Kennedy Read Quote
It’s just a dream of the struggling actor to just have a proper shot – not just in a film that people will see, but with a character that’s rich and complicated and that you can show you’re capable of taking on. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
