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Tom Wolfe Quotes

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Wait Look Situation First See Walks

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

Work Truth Imagination Fly Free Out

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

People Think American Want Talk Get

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Me Camera Reason Everything Tool

I value my privacy a lot.

Value Privacy Lot

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

Music Rain Myself Grandfather Three

In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Work Women Business Property Own

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

Russell Hornsby

Character Truth Search You Artist

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

Michael Schudson

Advertising Sales Lead May Much

I think that I'm, like, an introverted extrovert. At the end of the day, when I get done doing hair at the salon or shooting a day of 'Queer Eye' or whatever, I definitely want to come home and, like, order pasta and sit with my cat or just one person or no people.

Jonathan Van Ness

Home Day People Hair Eye Think

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

Life I Am Bag Old Grumpy Am

I can play guitar - but I can't really. I wouldn't say I'm talented at it. I just kind of watch videos on YouTube, and I follow the instructions... OK, yeah, my hidden talent: I'm good at following instructions!

Good Talent Guitar I Can Play Kind

Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.

Love People Dinner Too Much New Out

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