Edmund White Quotes

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

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• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Power
  • Plants
  • Be Prepared

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • War
  • Elements
  • Diplomacy

• Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

  

  Quintilian
  • Men
  • May
  • Song

• Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • You
  • Always

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Political
  • Practice

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Enjoy
  • Acting
  • Go For It

• I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Characters
  • Variety
  • Layers

• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

• One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Time
  • Future

• You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Christian
  • Needs
  • Apathy

• I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Writing
  • Poverty

• There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Writing
  • Morning

• You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Work
  • School
  • Money

• The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Nature
  • Event
  • Catastrophe

• Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Sex
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