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
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
Olivier Theyskens -
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.
Aaron Rodgers -
I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
Hans Vestberg -
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.
C. Everett Koop -
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
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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.
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'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
Vince McMahon -
I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
Imtiaz Ali
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom -
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Nat King Cole -
Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
Ed O'Neill -
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius -
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
Carlos Mesa -
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Jack Kevorkian
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
Walter Kirn -
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot -
I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
Taye Diggs -
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