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Gene Fowler Quotes

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Think Sometimes Out Room

When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

Writing Book Thought You Early Down

First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?

You Want Fair First See Ball

Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.

Saturday Movies Old Up Theater Grew

You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care.

Confidence Women Great Care You

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

People Party Understand Should Adore

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

Think Thinking Language Grow Way Up

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

Food Think Key American You Look

Me personally, I don't ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble.

Humble Me Too Much Ask Him Bless

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

Josh Hutcherson

Yourself Identity People You Kind

My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

Dominique Moceanu

Life Opportunity Training Talent Me

After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.

People Dying Same Relatives After

It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.

Work Parents People Better Help Two

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