"I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art."

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Source : "Lecture: Gay Talese". Bullpen: NYU Journalism, September 14, 2006.

Gay Talese

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“The summit is not the only place on the mountain.”
“I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person. . . . It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know ?.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.”
“I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.”

Source : Nelson Algren (1999). “The Man with the Golden Arm”, p.415, Seven Stories Press
“I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.”
“Relationships help you learn more about what you want. If one doesn't work out, you just kind of look at it and go, Okay, well, this is what I did like and this is what I didn't like, and this is what I did wrong, and maybe I need to be more like this. And so you learn things, and that's why you grow. And you bring all the stuff that you've changed about yourself to a new relationship until you finally find that person you really, really want.”

Source : "Ashley Tisdale" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.
“Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.”
“A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.”

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