It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Casey Affleck, Actor (1975) |
Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Theologian (1905) |
Katharine Lee Bates, Author (1859) |
John Cazale, Actor (1935) |
Cecil B. DeMille, Producer (1881) |
Dorothy Denning, Public Servant (1945) |
John Derek, Actor (1926) |
Radclyffe Hall, Poet (1880) |
Edith Hamilton, Writer (1867) |
Sam J. Jones, Actor (1954) |
Luther Allison, Musician (1997) |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist (1988) |
John Cage, Composer (1992) |
Ian Fleming, Author (1964) |
Henry Fonda, Actor (1982) |
Esther Forbes, Author (1967) |
Albert Gallatin, Statesman (1849) |
Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1885) |