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I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.


Truman Capote

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I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
LISA UNGER I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and ter...
ALVIN AILEY I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it m...
EMILIA FOX It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote,
DOUGLAS MCGRATH Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
STEVE EARLE Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipu...
NAEEM KHAN I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
ED HARRIS Sixteen games was too much. The wear and tear over the season, and then the kids need to do schoolwo...
DAROLD IMANAKA July 11. She had always liked those numbers, seven and eleven. In charada, the mystical signi...
ZOé VALDéS I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
ANNE ENRIGHT The Black and White Ball was a work of performance art. It was a work that was every bit as importan...
DEBORAH DAVIS I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in So...
BETTY HILL I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you ...
J.R. WARD And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER I was eleven years old, and I'd lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.
RAINBOW ROWELL I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I s...
ANTHONY HOPKINS Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about try...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent ...
DOUGLAS MCGRATH I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER …because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world...
ALAN BRADLEY For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red....
SHERRI SHEPHERD Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
EDDIE FLOYD I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
SHELLEY LONG I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a love...
JULIA CHILD I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I was...
CANDIS CAYNE I have buck teeth. I sucked my thumb until I was eleven, and then I went on to suck other things. I'...
ROSANNA ARQUETTE I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.
KIM ALEXIS Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for h...
RICH LITTLE I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell ...
PATRICK CARMAN In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and...
CHELY WRIGHT Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.
RACHEL CAINE I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even t...
IVAN REITMAN I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is unifor...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN One of my best friends since I was eleven years old is a gay man, and I knew his struggle. It was a ...
TREVANTE RHODES I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started...
SIRIO MACCIONI I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years un...
HAROLD ICKES [Capote never taped his subjects or even took notes — he boasted that he had 94% recall, often tea...
REX REED I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the ...
GLENDA MILLARD I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”
RAINBOW ROWELL When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or e...
MARIO J. MOLINA I am alive today because I had advance warning about kidney disease. When I was eleven years old, I ...
DAVID MYERS Those were still the same shots I normally take, but my shot wasn't falling. But in no way was this ...
LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over...
GEORGE PLIMPTON I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.
MEGAN FOX It just came on so fast. There was no way to know we were going to be trapped. I spent the first 35 ...
BETTY HAGAN It just came on so fast. There was no way to know we were going to be trapped. I spent the first 35 ...
BETTY HAGAN I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
ADAM GARCIA I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ...
ROBERT ANTHONY I used to tell my history students that while he was a Democrat, I admired Harry Truman because he t...
PHIL CRANE When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to ...
SONIA LEVITIN I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10...
TONY BENNETT I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early...
TOBY JONES I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came righ...
GENE HACKMAN Mr. Gore, I knew Harry Truman, ... I ran against Harry Truman. And Mr. Gore, you are no Harry Truman...
STROM THURMOND I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
TOBIN BELL One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like...
RIHANNA My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven...
CAL RIPKEN, JR. My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
SYDNEY SMITH The main reason we got Capote was because of the Oscar nomination, and the reason we lost Capote was...
JAY JUSTUS I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a...
BOB SEGER I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my...
KATE FORSYTH I'm very, very elated that I came out and skated well. It was lovely, really.
JOHNNY WEIR The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every ra...
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.
ALOK JAGAWAT The war was over, ... They were defeated by the time he dropped those bombs -- I think he wanted to ...
THOMAS GRAY When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair sli...
DAN AYKROYD I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very...
MICHAEL EKLUND Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...
BILLIE HOLIDAY When 'Sixteen Candles' first came out I was totally offended by the girl in the brace, but I saw the...
KAREN JOHNSON I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
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BESS TRUMAN It's nice to win.
BESS TRUMAN It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
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BESS TRUMAN I have a strong tennis arm.
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HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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HARRY S TRUMAN A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S. TRUMAN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S. TRUMAN That government is best which governs least.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a po...
HARRY S. TRUMAN It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's v...
HARRY S. TRUMAN Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the su...
HARRY S. TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
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