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Gore Vidal Quotes

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Interesting Desire Adolescence

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.

Identity Me More English France

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Dog Dreams Great Imagination Living

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

John Polkinghorne

Thinking Present Too Much Much Very

I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin tone or your natural features or that you shouldn't have a voice or that you aren't smart.

Amandla Stenberg

Girl Smart Hair Voice Black Think

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Family Fun House Clowns Our Lots

'What's It Gonna Be?' is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where - to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters - The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid - and then flip expectations.

School Expectations Someone Back Go

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Relationship Woman Fight Win Start

When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Energy Fast Way Hot Air High

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

Me Selling Nobody New Airport First

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

Look Bad Old Bad Guy Guy Politician

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Marian Wright Edelman

Child End Better Poverty Backwards

I don't look like a chorus girl.

Girl Look Like Chorus

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