Edmund White Quotes
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.Edmund White
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
Taylor Sheridan -
Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
Jack Ramsay -
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania of Jordan
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
Najib Razak -
There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
Dan Levitan -
I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
Lasse Hallstrom -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett -
I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
Eddie Marsan
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
Daniel Barber -
I don't envy young actors.
Edd Byrnes -
I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
Rachel McAdams -
The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
Ban Ki-moon -
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
J. K. Simmons
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
F. Sionil Jose -
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
George R. R. Martin -
One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.
Mark Waid -
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
J. C. Ryle -
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
Edmund White