We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?


Edith Head

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I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m...
EDITH PEARLMAN
The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
EDITH PEARLMAN
I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w...
EDITH PEARLMAN
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
EDITH EVANS
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he...
EDITH EVANS
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
EDITH EVANS
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
EDITH CAVELL
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH SUMMERSKILL
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...
EDITH SITWELL
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON
It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON
I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG