Gay Talese Quotes

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Gay Talese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterI AmNew YorkPeopleCity

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

Anna Seward

MusicLearnDrawingEducateWould

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Amanda Lindhout

MotherHomeTimeParentsYearEat

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

Mike Krieger

CrazyBelieveEnoughSignsClearly

The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

Mildred Dresselhaus

WomenBestLadyStudentsProfessor

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.

Lou Barlow

GuitarWarmFeelYouNiceClassic

First feelings are always the most natural.

Louis XIV

FeelingsFirstAlwaysNaturalMost

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

SilenceSongMoreThanAnyMusical

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Clara Mamet

FreedomCreativeFunActingMy Own

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

Brett Favre

WantUpSurgeryKnewNeededHaving

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

Brad Bird

TimeUnexpectedReadyTalkUpGoing

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

Bruce Sterling

ShoesMoneyMaking MoneyTroubleUp

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Bryan Ferry

FailurePeopleYouChooseHighLike

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