Jack Klugman
American actor (1922-2012)
Dorothy Gladys “Dodie” Smithwas an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castleand the children’s novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).
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About the Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys “Dodie” Smithwas an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castleand the children’s novel The Hundred and One Dalmatiansand The Starlight Barking (1967). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as “one of the nation’s 100 best-loved novels” by the British public as part of the BBC’s The Big Read (2003), and was adapted into a film released the same year.
7 Quotes by Dodie Smith
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie SmithEnglish children's novelist and playwright
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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie SmithEnglish children's novelist and playwright
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I have noticed that when things happen in one’s imaginings, they never happen in one’s life.
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie SmithEnglish children's novelist and playwright
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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Dodie SmithEnglish children's novelist and playwright
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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
Dodie SmithEnglish children's novelist and playwright
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There is something revolting about the way girls’ minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.
Dodie SmithEnglish children's novelist and playwright