Edmund White Quotes

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

Edmund White

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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

Iggy Azalea
- People
- Up
- Pretty
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson
- Great
- Art
- Happiness
You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Irving Ravetch
- Up
- Work
- Real
Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

Patrick Kane
- Great
- Help
- Team
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

Rachel Ward
- Up
- Age
- Acting
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Bernstein
- Great
- American
- History