Edmund White Quotes
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Quotes to Explore
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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We care about margins.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
