Gay Talese Quotes

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Gay Talese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkThinkWriteTurnLikeFinished

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

Joan Jett

WriteSongsLotI WriteRecorded

It really was an amazing thing when Midlake brought me down to Texas and created an atmosphere in which I felt really safe and was able to do whatever I wanted artistically.

John Grant

AmazingMeTexasDownSafeWhatever

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Meher Baba

BeginningSpiritualRiseDivine

When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

Matthew Gray Gubler

FunYouWantMoviesWatchStar

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

Amy Sherald

FlowerBirdTreeSchoolEndHouse

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

River Phoenix

MeBelieveSellingProductsPhony

I've got a lot of power in my kicks.

Luke Rockhold

PowerGotKicksLot

My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it.

Louise Nurding

SonSpeakLanguageYouBadNeed

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

Jules Verne

GoodReasonTaken For GrantedMay

I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.

Jason Kander

TogetherWhereBackgroundChecksPut

Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

Bobbie Ann Mason

HomePeopleMeConflictBornRun

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

William Shenstone

EyeEasyMustBeforePleased

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