Edmund White Quotes
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
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New York is a fantastic city.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.
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Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
