Edmund White Quotes
All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
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I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.
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I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
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Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
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Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
