RADNER, Gilda
Gilda Susan Radner, Gilda Radner
28 June 1946 – 20 May 1989
Detroit, Michigan
American comedian & actor
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RADNER, Gilda
GILDA RADNER, American comedian & actor – Author Quotes
NELSON, Willie
WILLIE NELSON – American country music singer-songwriter, actor & activist – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
YOURCENAR, Marguerite
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A man who reads, reflects, or plans belongs to a species rather than to his sex; in his best moments he rises even above the human.” ~Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) trans. Grace Frick, New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1955, p. 165; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Fictional autobiography of the Roman Emperor Hadrian]: “I should have desired more: to see the human creature unadorned, alone with herself as she indeed must have been at least sometimes, in illness or after the death of a first-born child, or when a wrinkle began to show in her mirror. A
FLEXNER, Abraham
ABRAHAM FLEXNER – Author Quotes
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EBERT, Roger
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.” ~Roger Ebert, American journalist & film critic From Ebert's response to the question “In facing your own mortality, what final message would you leave for future generations?” in “11th Hour “Roger Ebert” (1994) Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO; The 11th Hour, Samuel A. Safarian & KBDI-TV, online via Colorado Public Television, video.cpt12.org Context Extended excerpt: [Address to live & television audience. Ebert is discussing the greater need for empathy. Transcript via Repeat Right.]: “Art, is of course, many things but I believe its most important role is to give form to
De LINT, Charles
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.” ~Charles de Lint, Canadian author & musician The Onion Girl (2001) New York: Tom Doherty Associates, p. 124 Context Extended excerpt: “The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter – here ink is smeared on a page, there lies an old photography with a chewed corner, elsewhere still, a nest has been made of old newspapers, headlines running one into the other to make strange declarations. There is no order to what we recall, the wheel of time follows no straight line as it turns in our heads.
ZINN, Howard