Dorothy Quote by Pat Conroy Download Open image “I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.” — Pat Conroy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dorothy Her I think Life Modeled Mother Parenting Scarlett Scarlett O'hara Think Whole Whole life
“Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being… — Meredith Baxter Copy Share Image
I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten. — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
“He had given work to a nightwalker named Dorothy Evans and gradually became beguiled by her. She was a plump, pretty, cattleman's daughter, pale as a cameo, with the sort of overripe body that always seems four months pregnant. Her long brown hair was braided into figure eights and pinned up over her ears in the English country-girl style. Grim… — Ron Hansen Copy Share
It was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she'd talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV. She was a… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
Did you ever watch the movie 'A Raisin in the Sun?' That lady was my mom, she was the spitting image of my mom. — Larry Johnson Copy Share Image
When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I always try to emulate those I admire. Pamela Harriman, Coco Chanel, Wallis Simpson, Jean Harlow, Diana Vreeland. — Sonja Morgan Copy Share Image
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. — Angie Dickinson Copy Share Image
My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us. The rejection… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers and Mike.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“...what happens when you return and find nothing but a hollowed shell, shingles and floor, walls and echoes and the light that lead you… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade… — Moira Kelly Copy Share Image
“I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy. "Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“And I wished myself back—back to the future or wherever home was supposed to be—clicking my heels together in a frantic ticking heart staccato… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Beautiful was in the way that she moved and spoke. Beautiful was an action as well as a description.” — Danielle Paige Copy Share Image
Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
“Such places would not be special at all...if they appeared at regular times and in predictable ways.” — Ron Glick Copy Share Image
“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy… — Moira Kelly Copy Share Image