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Pat had a knack for taking on the most difficult kind of assignments and making it look easy. She had a wonderful skill and wisdom for calming everyone down and making them play well together.


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HAROLD BLOOM We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD