I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
Huck has just lied to protect his friend, Jim, a runaway slave. With this simple argument Twain demolishes at least two or three of the most commonplace modern approaches to morality. They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because.
Democracy is like a raft it won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
A mere theory of life that remains but a theory, is about as useful to a man as a gilt-edged menu is to a starving sailor on a raft in mid-ocean.... No rule for higher living will help a man in the slightest until he reaches out and appropriates it for himself, until he makes it practical in his daily life, until that seed of theory in his mind blossoms into a thousand flowers of thought and word and act.
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.
George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
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