"You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing."

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Source : Lillian Hellman (1988). “Toys in the Attic”, p.54, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Lillian Hellman

#Too Much Quotes

“The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.”
“My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.”
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
“I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.”

Source : "'Burial Rites' author Hannah Kent finds mystery in Iceland". Interview with Randy Dotinga, www.csmonitor.com. November 29, 2013.
“Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.”
“President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.”
“I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.”

Source : "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
“What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind.”

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