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Gore Vidal Quotes

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Wings Party Right Two Republican

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Parents Me Athlete Become Wanted

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

You Ground Foot Six Everybody Loves

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

People Believe You Sometimes Will

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

Love Kid Up Mythology Myth Just

I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I live by impulse. I'm totally ill-suited to writing history books.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Live Character History Writing End

I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.

Nervous Left Audition Even Really

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Work Tough Process Feel You Acting

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

American Political Corruption You

I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.

Future Remember I Can See Started

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Arthur Eddington

Nature Science Mind Where Found Put

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Power Result Purchasing Direct Very

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

Life Love Goals Attention You Will

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