Edmund White Quotes
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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Strength, boldness, and new energy are not words that describe Hillary Clinton.
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I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.
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The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I sort of take cues from my grandparents.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
