Gay Talese Quotes

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

Gay Talese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 7, 1932

Topics

TimeWorldPlaceWantLivingMove

I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.

Adnan Sami

BelievePhilosophyI BelieveTurning

I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

Megyn Kelly

GoodOpportunityWomanMeSaying

Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.

John Krasinski

CameraYouLookDigFactMovie

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

Angela Lansbury

WarCareGrowTake CareGrow UpUp

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

Stanley Elkin

InterestingDieYouMoreFictionUs

I go where I think I can enjoy myself. Sometimes it's on a big movie, and sometimes it's even on a silly movie.

Stellan Skarsgard

MyselfThinkEnjoySillyI CanGo

You learn a lot from kids.

Stellan Skarsgard

LearnYouKidsLot

I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around.

Tony Bennett

LifeMusicTimeBestMy LifeYears

Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.

Tom Brokaw

PurposePartyWouldWhoMain

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

Michael Moritz

FreedomThinkBetterYouMoreStay

Lives literally depend on what we do.

Dennis Muilenburg

DependLiterallyLives

When people watch 'Power' and they find out the showrunner is black, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that I am a woman and my background is not particularly urban.

Courtney A. Kemp

PowerWomanI AmPeopleBlackFind

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