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Truman Capote

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DOUGLAS MCGRATH Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
LISA UNGER Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
STEVE EARLE My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and ter...
ALVIN AILEY Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent ...
DOUGLAS MCGRATH Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE When you start interpreting this sort of thing sociologically, it's like taking a butterfly and pinn...
AILEEN MEHLE She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesnt she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left h...
TERRY BROOKS You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn'...
WAYNE SHORTER We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all...
ROBIN HOBB You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there...
WAYNE SHORTER This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would...
TAHEREH MAFI Never without a shilling in my purse.
UNKNOWN Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for h...
RICH LITTLE I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that...
ALICIA SILVERSTONE 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 don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker...
MAC DEMARCO The Black and White Ball was a work of performance art. It was a work that was every bit as importan...
DEBORAH DAVIS And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely...
DANIEL HANDLER Something I eventually learned: Prince's top girlfriend was always in Minneapolis. When you came to ...
MAYTE GARCIA 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 My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this...
ALICIA VIKANDER As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA ...he called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her...
CARRIE PRESTON You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. I...
CASSANDRA CLARE 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 I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and...
NORA EPHRON Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to re...
GRETCHEN CARLSON I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I ...
ALICIA SILVERSTONE It's a good thing. It will give us a chance to reach younger people with a more lively Sun-Maid girl...
BOB EPPERSON My sister gave the woman two aspirins from her purse, and I had some water with me.
ANNIE CLARK The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, li...
PENN BADGLEY One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.'...
HARRY STYLES Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. An...
JAMES PATTERSON I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needl...
MARIA MITCHELL You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There's not a lot of us in this class, but one thing we can give is the winning tradition Truman use...
JAMES WALTON Would you please just give in and let the baby go, give her a chance at life. There's a better way o...
FRED JOHNSON The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking ...
DOLLY PARTON Then, I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds. I want ...
K. WEBSTER Only you can make this right. Show me, not with words, but with action, that this is what you want a...
KELLY KNIGHT I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals tha...
DEB CALETTI The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new...
NEIL GAIMAN She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn't need to speak a word to seduce you.
STEPHEN F. CAMPBELL This girl owned my soul and stole my heart. She'd opened her self to me, giving me love and never as...
KATIE MCGARRY I remember seeing her in "Beautiful Girls" and "The Professional" and being like, This girl is geniu...
ZACH BRAFF I want a girl who lets me do my own thing, but who is going to be by my side the whole time, because...
DAREN KAGASOFF There is a girl behind the desk in blue uniform, with dark red hair, spread fanlike from her head in...
MALCOLM BRADBURY You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she...
JOHN RUSKIN You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. Tha...
STORMZY Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things,...
STANLEY SPENCER Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give ...
ANNE RICE My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anyw...
JOHN BARRYMORE He turned and narrowed his eyes at her. "There is a certain sort of girl who wants the wolf to eat o...
LENA COAKLEY I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.
EVELYN LAUDER There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production t...
RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON Lips are kind of like my thing, and I've always been obsessed with lipstick and lip liner. I jus...
KYLIE JENNER Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
PAT BENATAR Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS I've got this thing for spicy stuff. Now, if you give me hot chocolate with chili pepper, a book...
SHILOH WALKER This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
CHARLES S. DUTTON A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.
ASHISH KUMAR I once knew a girl that meant the world to me, she was just amazing. She's that one girl in my life ...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me ...
GEORGE HARRISON A girl can never have too many lipstick options!
ZOE SUGG In bounced my youngest carrying a magic wand and a pair of wings. 'Do you like who I am today mom?' ...
DEE SHIHADY When a very pretty and popular girl looks in the mirror, all she sees is her face, her earrings and ...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN Without this action we would reach the debt limit today.
BROOKLY MCLAUGHLIN I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some o...
BIANCA LAWSON That little girl is a warrior, ... She is -- for her to give the description that she did, to have t...
ERIN RUNNION I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing t...
ORLANDO BLOOM There wouldn't have been a huge market for this sort of work at the time so this would be more of a ...
GEOFFREY CASSIDY I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the react...
RAY BRADBURY My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m...
JANE AUSTEN If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed...
MOLLY MCADAMS A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY It definitely affects your home life, but luckily my wife has been behind me 120 percent. She handle...
DAN GREGG My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.
JULIE KAGAWA In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument...
BILL FRISELL Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our...
ANTHONY LICCIONE I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak ...
DANIEL AMORY Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live."

"Did she?" Cha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS The best thing about it was hearing my sister ask me to give her hitting lessons.
MEGAN KELLEY I was having a little trouble, ... That girl could sleep in that class and get an A. She's that smar...
JUSTIN UPTON And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her patholog...
JESSE GILES CHRISTIANSEN If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the dou...
THOMAS CARLYLE And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. T...
TRISH STRATUS My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of book...
REY MYSTERIO It doesn't matter if it's in my class or around the world, anywhere, the first thing I say is "First...
BILLY BLANKS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Danny - his story is just amazing, how he went in there trying to free that girl and not being able ...
DAVE WILKINS He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless ab...
JOHN GREEN I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade cl...
STEVE CARELL My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
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TRUMAN CAPOTE The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
TRUMAN CAPOTE ...he called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...
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TRUMAN CAPOTE Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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TRUMAN CAPOTE When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).
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TRUMAN CAPOTE You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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HARRY TRUMAN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY TRUMAN The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.
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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.
BESS TRUMAN I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
BESS TRUMAN I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
BESS TRUMAN I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall wan...
BESS TRUMAN I have a strong tennis arm.
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HARRY TRUMAN Activities like that are really good for the city and the activist community.
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BESS TRUMAN Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
HARRY TRUMAN We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in...
HARRY TRUMAN You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
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MARGARET TRUMAN He loved politicians - even Republicans.
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HARRY TRUMAN The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
HARRY TRUMAN Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
HARRY TRUMAN Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You rem...
HARRY TRUMAN The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
HARRY TRUMAN Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand fo...
HARRY TRUMAN It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
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BESS TRUMAN It's nice to win.
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BESS TRUMAN A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on str...
BESS TRUMAN I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
BESS TRUMAN Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
HARRY TRUMAN It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own ho...
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JENNIFER TRUMAN The boys went to Burger King and got him some of those crowns.
JENNIFER TRUMAN We have a very strong defense, and do a good job of frustrating opponents.
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JENNIFER TRUMAN I don't know what happened over the span of the 10-minute halftime. It was like I had put 11 differe...
JENNIFER TRUMAN The girls just couldn't seem to get past the mud. The mud stopped every shot cold.
JENNIFER TRUMAN It's been very frustrating having to delay putting the pieces together prior to league because of th...
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HARRY TRUMAN The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN The buck stops here!
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HARRY S TRUMAN People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
HARRY S TRUMAN They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation....
HARRY S TRUMAN I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN The Buck Stops Here
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HARRY S TRUMAN The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special repre...
HARRY S TRUMAN When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here,...
HARRY S TRUMAN You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this...
HARRY S TRUMAN There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the Presiden...
HARRY S TRUMAN Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
HARRY S TRUMAN Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli...
HARRY S TRUMAN On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of Israel was planning to proclaim a Jewish...
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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