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Nancy Gibbs Quotes

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1960

Topics

Conflict Church Gender Values Why

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Life Time Culture Survive Capitalism

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Melissa Rosenberg

Failure Character Think You Lose

People are tweeting, texting, and e-mailing - and not connecting. There are very few ways for communities to come together. It happens at concerts and at sporting events.

Together People Events Connecting

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

People Think You Find Manager Write

You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.

Merce Cunningham

Passion You Person Way Human See

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

Stanley Hauerwas

War Democracy Wealth Go Moral Never

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

Person Way More Out Standing Crowd

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

Home Time People Think Run More

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

Retirement Loss Plan Security Will

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

Fear Eye Nothing Class Bank Always

The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable.

Goal Things Exciting Respectable

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

End You Know End Of The Tunnel Never

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