Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.
I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
It's a great time to be alive.
There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.
Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
I never had a great role in a great film.
I actually like football a great deal.
The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
