Edmund White Quotes

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

Edmund White

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• I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Justice
  • Jesus
  • Poverty

• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Liar
  • Candid

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Long
  • Country
  • Love

• Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Bad
  • Working
  • Considered

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Done
  • Want
  • Feel

• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Done
  • Art
  • Today

• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Children
  • Income
  • Veterans

• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

  

  Dasha Zhukova

• Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • American
  • Mother
  • Mean

• I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Life
  • She
  • Book

• It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Up
  • World
  • Guy

• Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

  

  Edmund White
  • Why
  • American
  • America