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 world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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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.
