Books Quote by Ann Dowd Download Open image “The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.” — Ann Dowd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books First First time Leftovers Read Time
I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
“If you found this book in the New Age section of your local bookstore, it was grossly misshelved, and you should put it down… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I think the takeaway is 'The Guest Book' is incredibly unexpected in every way. I know, when I was reading the script, I was… — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done. — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day. — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one of the… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop. — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you're fighting, and suddenly something happens. It's a kind of grace. Whether… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
The Leftovers was an absolutely extraordinary experience. After the first season of learning to work with Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, and all of… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
