Edmund White Quotes
I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
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How lucky am I?
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
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I push my ice cream dish away. What's left in the bowl isn't cold and delicious anymore. Now it's just lukewarm, melted soup, because obviously nothing good lasts forever.
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When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
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Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.
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I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.
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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
