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Allan Gurganus Quotes

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Allan Gurganus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1947

Topics

You Down Up Eighteen Let Down Some

Motherhood made me a better person.

Jessie James Decker

Me Motherhood Better Person Better

Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.

Jenna Wortham

Love Women Habit School Thought Out

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Children Sorry Think You Everyone

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

John Hume

Equality People Civil Rights Movement

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

Matthew Desmond

Tradition Sociology Urban Come Which

I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.

Sofia Vergara

Love Walk Pain You Heels Get

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Russell Baker

Glasses Doing Dark Nobody Street

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

Luke Combs

Work Change Style Myself Year Look

Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

Lou Holtz

Walk Lie Stand You Down Run

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

Julia Stiles

Early Some Very Premature Bit

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Dodie Smith

Depression Best Hot Deeds Noble

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

Dominic Monaghan

Friends Class Clown Used Performing