About Quote by Horton Foote

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

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I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any easy solution.…

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I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you…

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I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity.…

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My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named…

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I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years…

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Writing is the thing that props me up.

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When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

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I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes…

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I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at…

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Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds…

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You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to…

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