Gore Vidal Quotes

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenWorldRealityPowerfulTell

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

Joe Namath

ThinkBackupBeenEver

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

Maya Rudolph

MomWonderWhySeeDaysHere

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

John Negroponte

I AmEarlyCareerRightAmbassador

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.

Maurice Sendak

AcceptRoleIllustrator

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

Angela Ahrendts

SmallSmall TownEducatedUniversity

The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.

Rob Lowe

MeGameLookMissedNeverFirst

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

Mary Stuart Masterson

CharacterSoulPeopleStoryFinding

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

Mary Berry

BirthdaySonCakeGraceChocolate

It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.

Mike Judge

PeopleMeSayingWeirdLawyersHear

I gathered as much reading material about Aung San Suu Kyi and about Burma as I could. And I read every article and every book she had written. I also had 200 hours of footage of her to watch. I tried to discover who were her heroes and where he desire and strength to pursue democracy in a non-violent fashion came from.

Michelle Yeoh

StrengthDemocracyFashionReading

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

Lisa Randall

ScienceChallengeReligionPeople

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Jordan Peterson

ScienceThinkDoubtInequalityClear

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