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Tom Wolfe Quotes

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1931

Topics

Now Want Difference Honest Noticed

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

Jennifer Ellison

Best Fairy Tale Perfect Want Fairy

'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.

John Mellencamp

Friend Childhood Walls Green Song

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

Authority Understand Cultures Must

As much as they'll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

Jeffrey Donovan

Me Fighting My Own Own Stunts Much

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

Career Realize Twilight

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life Humor Impossible Absence Total

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

Good You Place Know How Any

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

Accountant Why Shy Company Million

When you're happy at home, it spills out into every other area of your life.

Life Home Happy You Out Your

I love nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In those snatched moments away from dance, I did typical weekend things like pruning, planting, and weeding. I planted fruit trees and even had a vegetable garden, but I wasn't around enough, so it was a disaster.

Nature Love Home Dance Fruit Trees

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

Feet Think Washington Ground Whose

My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia.

Doctor Doing White Blood More Count

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