Edmund White Quotes
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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I know what poverty is.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.
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The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
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Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
