Edmund White Quotes
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
Quotes to Explore
-
J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
-
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
-
It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
-
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
-
I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
-
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
-
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
-
There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
-
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
-
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
-
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
-
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
-
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
-
Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
-
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
-
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
-
I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
-
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
-
I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."
-
Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
-
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
-
You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
-
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
