Gore Vidal Quotes

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.

Joe Morton

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I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.

John Corey Whaley

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You can quit smoking and lose weight at the same time.

Mel Robbins

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Intimate scenes or a kiss is a very technical aspect of filmmaking. It is extremely mechanical.

Shraddha Kapoor

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When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.

Trevor Nunn

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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

Tom Petty

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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Roberto Cavalli

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Any exercise is better than nothing, even if it's only five minutes.

Mary Helen Bowers

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The more confident I am, the more daring I am.

Michelle Wolf

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We cannot stop what we cannot see.

Michael McCaul

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One of the wonderful things about 'Jason Bourne' and that franchise is getting to work the same people sporadically and over the course of many years. I'm not so keen on having to get to know a whole group of people.

Julia Stiles

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My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

Josh Pais

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