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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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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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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Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
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I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?
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While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
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Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
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Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
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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.
