Gay Talese Quotes
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I don't really yell at people.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.
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There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.
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Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
