"There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

Margaret Halsey

#Children Quotes #Play Quotes #Black Quotes

“On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.”

Source : "Patti Page, Proving That Simple Songs Endure" by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2003.
“Donald Trump has said many times, he will be the president of all people, even those who don`t agree with him.”
“Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.”
“Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention”
“I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.”
“Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.”
“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.”

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