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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Being evil is easy.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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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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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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History's a resource.
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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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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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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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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.
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The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes.
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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.
