Edmund White Quotes
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
Quotes to Explore
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
