Edmund White Quotes
It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
