Edmund White Quotes
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
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There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
