Edmund White Quotes
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
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I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
