Ciaran Hinds quote: "That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them."

'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school whe...
JAKE T. AUSTIN

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musica...
MARSHA NORMAN

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women...
KIM CATTRALL

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to ...
COREY TAYLOR

At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving ...
PADDY CONSIDINE

It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just th...
ELLIE KENDRICK

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, an...
GORE VIDAL

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
PAUL MOONEY

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the...
BRUCE MCCULLOCH

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you&#...
DIANE PAULUS

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are...
LAILA ROBINS

In a lot of cases, makeup is a fantastic help, and that's why women love makeup in general. It&#...
FRANCOIS NARS

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
GLORIA SWANSON

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN

28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movi...
FAYE DUNAWAY

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole...
EMMA DONOGHUE

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We...
GENE SIMMONS

Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibr...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.
DAKIN WILLIAMS

'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary an...
MARK LEYNER

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You...
HAROLD RAMIS

Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his...
TIM RICE-OXLEY

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great thi...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the wo...
BRIAN WILSON

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking ab...
KATO KAELIN

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was ...
KATY MIXON

The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk abou...
GARY BURGHOFF

Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: wr...
ROB THOMAS

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or s...
ROBERT PINSKY

Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories wi...
MIKE COLTER

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas...
GLENN TIPTON

Clearly, [it was] just great to bounce back after a tough loss last night. It was great to see us ge...
FRANK SULLIVAN

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is of...
HILAIRE BELLOC

They were all very supportive and started telling stories, which was the spark that got us thinking ...
ANDREA CONTE

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into som...
SHANE CARRUTH

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's ab...
ERIC SAN

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his...
WAYNE KRAMER

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terro...
ATHOL FUGARD

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS

He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
ERIN HUNTER

The show was great, 'cause it had the energy that you wanted. If Jay-Z is talking about them in his ...
DAN HOOTEN

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
DAVID R. ELLIS

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job a...
KELSEA BALLERINI

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer,...
DAVID HENRY HWANG

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.
DONALD TUSK

There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for...
NINA DOBREV

The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's cover...
RINGO STARR

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And...
HARVEY PEKAR

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for...
TOM WAITS

We've done about a half-dozen of these shows together over the years, and from the first time, it se...
LUCINDA WILLIAMS

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.&#...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that w...
JAMES MCAVOY

Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile co...
JOAN LUNDEN

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Al...
ALEXANDER PAYNE

We made a change and got in a good rhythm. I was happy just to see us hang with them, let alone win ...
KAREL TRESNAK JR

On his way up, I got a piece of his arm and a piece of the ball, which made it short. It was a great...
LEBRON JAMES

I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth,...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her...
ANN LECKIE

'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.
RICHARD LAGRAVENESE

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st...
LAURA HILLENBRAND

With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life;...
MAIKA MONROE

The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to ...
PAULA HAWKINS

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just ...
ED WESTWICK

I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, son...
PAUL RUDD

In my life, I got a haircut junior year of college that was a real wash-'n-go type of situation....
JESSICA ST. CLAIR

Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was, like, mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something th...
VIOLANTE PLACIDO

Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like &#...
DAVID MACKENZIE

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept ...
DEBRA WINGER

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and charact...
ERIC BROWN

[Vick] was just in rhythm. He threw the ball really well. His fastball was working, and he just thre...
JEFF GREGORY

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something ...
ANATOLY RYBAKOV

Now, does everyone understand why we got rid of Travis Henry? ... The guy had a drug problem, and we...
MIKE MULARKEY

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted,...
BOB WEIR

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidew...
STEPHEN KING

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I wa...
SEAN BEAN

I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, ...
DARIO ARGENTO

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a wr...
ANN PACKER

There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it...
C.J. CHERRYH

Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go...
PATRICK NESS

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th...
ELLEN POTTER

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI

While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge t...
EVANNA LYNCH

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's...
EDIE FALCO

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to...
JOAN DIDION

Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's...
BEN GIBBARD

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think...
J. D. SOUTHER

I have had it with that stuff. I have a very short fuse with that stuff.
MIKE HOLMGREN

It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing ...
DEOBIA OPAREI

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

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That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

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