Quotes from interviews
Remarks made to Lisa Hobbs Birnie include:
"I've heard about Christianity but have never seen it in practice."; James Baldwin (May 8, 1963)
"I don't like dirt-mental intellectual or spiritual."; Ansel Adams (Oct. 27, 1963)
"How could I ever have married when I had a man as great as my father (Leo)."; Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (undated)
"The Catholic hierarchy in the South goes along hand in hand with the white supremacists."; John Howard Griffin (Nov. 7, 1963)
"My life? If I did everything I wanted to do I'd live to be a thousand."; Joan Crawford (April 18, 1963)
On how dancing with Rudolf Nureyev affected her: "I have been accused by the press for being icy. If I was then, I'm not now."; Dame Margot Fonteyn (Jan. 1, 1964)
"Everybody in the world feels a great void. If you are human you are incomplete."; Woody Allen (1968)
"I never bother to describe my heroes. This way the reader knows (the hero) is himself. A hero has to be something special. A killer can be anybody."; Mickey Spillane (Feb. 29, 1968)
"The strongest thing going for me is my total commitment to the building of a socialist society in Canada."; Rosemary Brown (Chatelaine July, 1975)
"I've heard about Christianity but have never seen it in practice."; James Baldwin (May 8, 1963)
"I don't like dirt-mental intellectual or spiritual."; Ansel Adams (Oct. 27, 1963)
"How could I ever have married when I had a man as great as my father (Leo)."; Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (undated)
"The Catholic hierarchy in the South goes along hand in hand with the white supremacists."; John Howard Griffin (Nov. 7, 1963)
"My life? If I did everything I wanted to do I'd live to be a thousand."; Joan Crawford (April 18, 1963)
On how dancing with Rudolf Nureyev affected her: "I have been accused by the press for being icy. If I was then, I'm not now."; Dame Margot Fonteyn (Jan. 1, 1964)
"Everybody in the world feels a great void. If you are human you are incomplete."; Woody Allen (1968)
"I never bother to describe my heroes. This way the reader knows (the hero) is himself. A hero has to be something special. A killer can be anybody."; Mickey Spillane (Feb. 29, 1968)
"The strongest thing going for me is my total commitment to the building of a socialist society in Canada."; Rosemary Brown (Chatelaine July, 1975)
Submitted on December 31, 2012 in By David.