Early Quote by George Plimpton Download Open image “He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.” — George Plimpton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Early He Hill Novelist Young
I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Jonathan Hill is an old friend of mine; I have worked with him for many years and know him to be a man of… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow. — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton. — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton Copy Share
“A male star named "T.T. Boy"…is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners...Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind… — George Plimpton Copy Share
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of… — George Plimpton Copy Share
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them… — George Plimpton Copy Share
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… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I definitely count my blessings. I feel like I've had such a great ride. Early on, to be able to work with some of… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I had been exposed to bitcoin early. I thought the consumer application of it felt, to me, further away. I thought there would be… — Brad Garlinghouse Copy Share Image
In the beginning, if you look at those early label albums of the Chicks, we didn't write all that much. We had an A&R… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
With 'Aurangzeb,' I just knew that the film wasn't going to work, though I think it was one of my most underrated performances. I… — Arjun Kapoor Copy Share Image
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country. — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
The early days were really difficult because it was constant no's, I didn't have an agent. I always knew that I had something to… — Madelyn Cline Copy Share Image
The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
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