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.
Edmund White
Quotes to Explore
I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
Patricia Velasquez
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.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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.
Lake Bell
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.
Karl Liebknecht
If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
Feng Zhang
I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
La'Porsha Renae
I went over to the Sargent, said, 'Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug.'
Arlo Guthrie
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
H. Jon Benjamin
The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
Idris Elba
The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
Ben Lerner
The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
Ingrid Newkirk
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.
Edmund White
