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Tom Perrotta Quotes

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Tom Perrotta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1961

Topics

Love Beauty Great School High School

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Live Money End Year Want Jazz

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Joe Lhota

Father Mother New York City New Cop

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

Joanna Lumley

Trying You Acting Sexism Low Get

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Mother Me Speak Language Result

I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.

Menachem Begin

Sky Blue Memory Jerusalem Clear

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Robert Jarvik

Father Heart Die Trying Him Going

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Robert M. Pirsig

Integrity Independence Need Return

I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19.

St. Lucia

Born Africa Lived South Africa Until

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Father Mother Construction Production

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Worst Through Seen Been

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.

Denis Villeneuve

Women Light Dark Movies Coming Very

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Donald Judd

Me I Can See Anything Interest Does