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Friend: "That drink is slow poison."
Robert Benchley: "So who's in a hurry?"
(09/15/1889
11/21/1945)
US writer
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from lazinessto save oneself trouble."
Agatha Christie
(09/15/1890
01/12/1976)
English writer
("And Then There Were None")
"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original."
Roy Acuff
(09/15/1903
11/23/1992)
US singer
"I would stand on the floor, and they would bring this arm down and cinch it around my waist, then pull me up in the air. Every time I moved, one of the fingers would loosen, so it would look like I was trying to get away. Actually, I was trying not to slip through his hand."
Fay Wray
(09/15/1907
08/08/2004)
US actor
, on acting in 'King Kong'
"I'm proud and grateful I was Blondie, She was dumb and shrewish sometimes, but she was real and sympathetic and warm, a real woman, a human being. And that's how I tried to play her."
Penny Singleton
(09/15/1908
11/12/2003)
US actor
("Blondie" films)
"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
Thomas Wolfe
(10/03/1900
09/15/1938)
US writer
"My thanks to the Academy for the very finest, greatest award that any actor can ever receive. The only thing a man can say at a time like this isI am not really bald."
Tommy Lee Jones
(09/15/1946
)
US actor
"They say I'm unsubtle. But we need above all, a theatre that wakes us up: nerves and heart."
Oliver Stone
(09/15/1946
)
US director
"You've got to take chances in life." *
Nelson Minter
(09/15/1957
12/03/1993)
US friend and schoolmate
(his son is named Chance)
"When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed."
Bill Evans
(08/16/1929
09/15/1980)
US pianist
"I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialismthat some new drug, or the next election, or the latest in social engineering will solve everything."
Robert Penn Warren
(04/24/1905
09/15/1989)
US writer
"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"
Oriana Fallaci
(06/29/1929
09/15/2006)
Italian journalist
"Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it."
Ric Ocasek
(03/23/1944
09/15/2019)
US singer, songwriter (Cars)
(was married to Paulina Porizkova)
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