Terry Southern Quotes

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

Terry Southern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 1, 1924 - October 29, 1995

Topics

GreenBelieveSomeoneAttention

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

Jenna Dewan

ChangeThoughtBodyOutFreakGoing

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

Melissa Etheridge

ThinkDifferencesDoneBelievingUs

Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time.

John Lanchester

WorkTimeMoneyMeResearchStart

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Amy Ray

RealityBandFolk

It seems like I have been fighting someone, something, someplace, in some manner, my whole life.

Roddy Piper

LifeFightingSomeoneSomethingBeen

On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.

Julia Stiles

LifeYouPersonKnowSaySilver

My grandpa was a preacher.

Dolly Parton

PreacherGrandpa

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

Chris Isaak

LoveDanceSchoolKissPeopleLook

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.

Colson Whitehead

WorkHomeLivePeopleMeThink

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never to age and often do our best to avoid sacrifice.

Anthony Scaramucci

AgeMyselfBestSacrificeBabyYou

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.

Alicia Machado

EducationHomeCultureManChildHe

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

Seann William Scott

TimeThinkFriendsKnowBigThose

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