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Kirk Douglas Quotes

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

Kirk Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1916

Topics

Success Great Small Generation Group

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

John Battelle

Home Child Night Long Late Phone

'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal.

Jerome Charyn

Man Angel Energy Deep Self Battle

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

Anatoly Karpov

Life Me World Champion My Life

I used to be really shy, and I think something happened in my brain where I was like, 'All right, I don't care anymore. I'm just going to be myself.' So I went to school wearing eyeliner and eye shadow, and they called my mom, telling her it was a distraction. My mom fought the school, and I got to wear makeup every day.

Jeffree Star

Myself Day Shadow School Mom Brain

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

Roger Ebert

Baby Think Better You Reason Plot

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

Ronald Perelman

Night Dirty Hot Miserable Factory

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

Matt Bomer

School New York Thought Doing Living

A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

Molly O'Keefe

Bird Little Things Book You Look

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Joseph Kosinski

Architecture Creative School New York

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

Jon Stewart

Day Year You Earth Will Get

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Arnold Bennett

Opinion World Strange Well Jolly

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Ali MacGraw

Animal Remember Rights Animal Rights