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There's nothing glorious abou...

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I no longer gave a sick dog's...

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Revolutions are the periods of...

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

It's not the sentiments of men...

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

The highest prize in a world o...

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There are four stages in a mar...

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Only another writer can know h...

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Television is coitus interrupt...

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Somewhere, something incredibl...

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

To know what you want to say i...

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

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...never have I subscribed to ...

...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Every time a story about me ap...

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

A really good style comes only...

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Writers don't have lifestyles....

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Armstrong, sitting in the comm...

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

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The paradox is that no love ca...

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

I do believe that America's de...

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

It all comes down to who does ...

It all comes down to who does the dishes.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Love asks us that we be a litt...

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

It's very bad to write a novel...

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....