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Gene Fowler Quotes

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Gene Fowler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1890 - July 2, 1960

Topics

World Speech Down Said Will Who

When I'm traveling, I always make sure to fit in a good daily AKTread session. And, of course, a day off every week.

Anna Kaiser

Good Daily Day Week Always Sure

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

Michael Caine

Someone Talking You True Him Idea

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

Tracey Emin

Ambition Looking End You Look Ahead

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Robert Crandall

People Politicians Tell Well Deal

Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing 'American Graffiti,' was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going for Nixon. I thought he could get us out of the Vietnam War quickly. Ha.

Ron Howard

War Me Think Thought American Doing

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.

Michael Moore

Business Past War Doing Company

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Louis Armstrong

Success Music Age Time Believe Back

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

Liz Murray

You Narrative Own Take Handle Your

My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

Drew Barrymore

Mother Dress Me Cool Thought She

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

David Talbot

House White New Kind Florida Level

As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor that was a terrible Hamlet. And he reenacted the performance, and for days I went on. I'd perform and do that, and I knew I wanted to do something kind of like that as a kid for awhile.

Winston Duke

Child Performance Kind Actor Kid

I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.

Paula Hawkins

Crime Her Well Adore Output Kate