Edmund White Quotes
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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Even my stuntman is old.
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I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.
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Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
