Gore Vidal Quotes

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

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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The great thing about TV is that it's so fluid. When you bring in someone for one quick role and they're fantastic, you can bring them back.

Jed Whedon

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Laws that impinge your constitutionally protected right to earn an honest living must not be preposterous.

Don Willett

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It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

Bruce Springsteen

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I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

Allison Williams

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I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it... I could only do little riffs and whatever.

Shamir

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Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

Tink

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I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

Kyle Chandler

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Racing is what I love, so it's pretty simple. I want to keep doing it and keep winning.

Lewis Hamilton

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It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

Howard Berman

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If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Gilles Villeneuve

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For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

Greg Boyle

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No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Frederic William Farrar

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