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Gore Vidal Quotes

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Will Enemies Out Take Our Literally

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

Jimmy Breslin

Work Nobody Know Single Anyway Does

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

Joe Wright

Good Art Action Political Bad Film

I did a couple of plays at university, badly, where I made friends with Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see someone like him acting, it makes you think there's not much point in doing it yourself.

Robert Rinder

Yourself Think Someone Doing Acting

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

Name Perfect More Monk Fit Than

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

Anna Chlumsky

I Am Doing Doubt Acting Worst Days

Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of language, and, it's probably safe to assume, nearly boundless energy.

Stephen McCauley

Love People Eye Energy Language

My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

Sophia Amoruso

Business Me Surprise Restaurant Know

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

Michael Moore

Political Enough You Powerful Want

I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.

Denis Leary

Work Great Day People Think Problem

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Christina Milian

Patience Advice Someone Doing Follow

He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.

Brittany Snow

Good Cute Baby Weird Stop Cry

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Allan Sherman

Marriage New York Divorce New Matter