Century Quote by Penelope Wilton Download Open image “I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.” — Penelope Wilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Close Close relationship Had Relationships Some Twentieth century Very Writers Writing
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer.… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life. — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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