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Herb Caen Quotes

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997

Topics

Yourself City Looking Negative Black

The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.

Enemy Now Began Appear

I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.

Character Looking Trying Understand

We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be.

Stress Me You Person Young Want

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Love War Difficult Than Scenes Less

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

New York Bad New Review Got Like

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

Writing Thought You Inside Always

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Solange Knowles

Opportunity Yourself Stand Up Stand

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.

Romantic Beach Wife Busy Trying Go

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.

Looking Why Way Ask Geometry Going

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

Women Men Me More Things Bigger

During my last days at Florida State, 65 to 70 percent of my boys did not have a daddy at home. They're raised by mommas. Thank God for them mommas, or grandmommas. Or big sister or aunt.

Home God Sister Thank God Florida

The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.

Success Personality Hat Face Rules

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