A Quote by Marion Meade

The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

Marion Meade

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Achievements Baptist Been Behind Carver Costs Fierce He Man Hidden Horatio Imagined Man Might Movie Movie Star Preacher Son Star Those Well

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Marion Meade
American - Novelist
Born: January 7, 1934

Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!

Gordon Downie

Dana White hides behind a microphone and behind a TV camera and spouts off and calls people names because he doesn't like their opinion.

Ken Shamrock

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Hunter S. Thompson

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Richard Bach

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

Heinrich Böll

If I leave any legacy behind, it's just the idea, just the theory that you admit to your ambitions, and you don't let people tell you you're wrong to have those ambitions.

Mikaela Shiffrin

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

Ike Turner

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

John Berger

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Anna Brownell Jameson

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.

Bob Balaban

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.

Jill Shalvis

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Waverley Root

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

Andrew Yang

In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there overcrowding it. The wife is there and the ego, and the husband is there and the ego - husband is hidden behind his ego, wife is hidden behind her ego, and those two egos go on making love. The real contact never happens.