Tom Wolfe Quotes

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

Tom Wolfe

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LifePowerWordsI AmAnimalMe

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleDrawingFirstFirst Impression

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

John Frusciante

HelpYouRelationshipsVocabulary

Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night.

John Hunter

GreatHeroMeNightWeekHouse

I'm a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it's not going to upset her.

Angelina Jolie

WomanYouLooksNiceUpsetShe

At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.

Angie Thomas

MotherEyesBestWalkEarthPark

Life's picking up speed.

Jeff Bridges

LifeSpeedUpPicking

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

Spencer Bachus

BestBrokenImmigrationWorstNation

Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it.

Stephen Hough

LifePeopleTryingAwayGetMost

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Sienna Miller

WorkRespectPeopleLearnWantJust

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

Jayma Mays

LifeFutureMy LifeAmericaLost

My first job out of law school was on the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where Gorsuch is a judge. I observed in the year that I worked at the court what many litigants and commentators have since noted: that Gorsuch possesses an incisive legal mind, writes with skill and wit, and is scrupulously fair.

Josh Hawley

JobSchoolMindLawLegalJudge

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

CharacterGoalBigPlayingMoveFan

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