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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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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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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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
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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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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
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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.
