Tom Wolfe Quotes

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

Tom Wolfe

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Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

Jerry Spinelli

LifeResearchLibraryMy LifeFirst

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Joel Osteen

FatherBestDeathFriendsDaddy

'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.

Steve Carr

GoodOpportunityCityMeLearnPlay

I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.

Stephen Karam

ThinkAliveScaryJoyfulI Think

My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.

Sue Hubbell

FlowerPlantsFlyingLandRentPay

I judge when I need a top-up of Botox by looking in the mirror to see if I can move more than half my forehead.

Trinny Woodall

MirrorLookingJudgeI CanNeedSee

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

Jose Antonio Vargas

LifeMyselfPeopleWritingFace

Markets love volatility.

Christine Lagarde

LoveVolatilityMarkets

The big business, Hollywood? I don't really work in that business. I peripherally work in it, but I'm not involved in it the way some people are.

Bobby Cannavale

WorkBusinessPeopleHollywoodWay

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

Arca

AgeEnvironmentYouEarlyGayKnew

I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.

Peter Hook

MusicHopePeopleSongGunRemember

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Todd Phillips

WritingVoiceActorIdeaSpecific

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