Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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I guess I crave stability.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.
