Edmund White Quotes
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.
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There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
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I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.
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At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
