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'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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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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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
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Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
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I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.
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The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.
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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.
