Austin Pendleton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

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