I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.


Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams

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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
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They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
DAN GROAT
I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.
COBIE SMULDERS
I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
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I just think a light bulb went on.
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I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
HENRY ROLLINS
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI
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MARY POPE OSBORNE
I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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I think there's nothing more awkward or stupid looking than a naked guy.
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
They're a 13 watt bulb that's equivalent to a 60 watt light bulb.
TIM BELL
A light bulb went off.
JEFF SPIVEY
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
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APURVA GAGLANI
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.
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MILDRED D. TAYLOR
I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.
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Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
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and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.
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Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
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Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone
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I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker,
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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
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Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!
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A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It m...
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We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
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The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can...
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Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
GLORIA SWANSON
Edison tried his light bulb a thousand times. I don't want to do this (assembling a prototype for te...
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I take the precaution of wearing proper, decent clothes when changing a light bulb in case I get zap...
JOYCE RACHELLE
You change a light bulb, you save money, you save energy.
ELLIS YAN
People go to the movies instead of moving.
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PATTY JENKINS
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
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Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
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Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
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I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
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I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
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A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Just another four letter word
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life
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Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ea...
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
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Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finel...
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Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you s...
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There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent...
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and cha...
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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge mid...
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I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I giv...
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The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into ever lasting regret if...
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The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Bec...
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Possess your soul in patience - you will see!
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I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life...
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.
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Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to th...
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But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung ...
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Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people!...
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all...
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She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…
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The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the...
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has p...
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am ...
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, ...
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am w...
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing
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Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some o...
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This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that...
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is les...
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It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bo...
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortu...
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Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What...
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. ...
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Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or ...
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I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or ...
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