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Gore Vidal Quotes

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Topics

Style Giving You Say Want Damn

I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching why the cuffs in the 18th century had four buttons. It was my handle.

Great Library Student Why Handle

There is nothing like walking on the streets on a freezing cold day and hearing fans scream your name, then stopping to talk to those same fans. There is nothing like looking into the crowd at the Q and seeing over 20,000 people wearing wigs to match your hair. Those are feelings I will cherish for the rest of my life and never forget.

Anderson Varejao

Life Day People Hair Looking Rest

I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them.

I Am Busy Friends Back Sometimes

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

Strength Mother Today Humble I Am

It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time.

Work Time Woman Me Think Early

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

Me You Mama Answer Call

My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons. Whenever I go down there, people are always looking at me funny, you know.

Colson Whitehead

Funny Mother People Me Mom Looking

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Politics Me Realize Everything Come

You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.

People Problems You See Leave Worse

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Poetry Me Feeling Way Through Going

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.

War Support People Think You Bad

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.

Team Fighting You Look Know Same

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