Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway.

Robert Gottlieb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1931

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My books are not about how it feels to be a black man. My books are about how it feels to be a human being, and part of what I'm trying to sort out is what we mean - what I mean, what you mean, what everybody in the culture means - when they say 'black man,' or they say 'white person.'

John Edgar Wideman

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My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

John Hickenlooper

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I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Tommy Bolin

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When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

Tom DeLonge

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Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.

Rollo May

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The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

Mike Rowe

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My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Mindy Kaling

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I don't care about fashion at all.

Juergen Teller

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Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Honolulu is a melting pot.

Bruno Mars

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I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.

Art Bell

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I was a precocious child.

Pippa Evans

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