Edmund White Quotes
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.
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My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
