Edmund White Quotes
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Edmund White
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek
I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
Fiona Shaw
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
Ian Mckellen
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw
When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
Ted Cruz
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
Jack Buck
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
Warren Rudman
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Maajid Nawaz
My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'
Martin Garrix
Area21
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
George Murray
My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
J. August Richards
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
Vladimir Putin
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
David Livingstone
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Edmund White
