Edmund White Quotes
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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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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I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.
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I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
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People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
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People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.
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The longer you are in acting business, the more you cherish the times when you're working with people that do great work, and can figure out how to enjoy themselves while they're doing the great work.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
