Edmund White Quotes

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

Edmund White

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LifeFriendTimeStorySelfSomeone

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

John Hodgman

Real EstateMediaWantRealOwn

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Jeffrey Kluger

FutureArtPracticeRelationships

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Stephen Hawking

MotivationalStarsCuriousFeetLook

I was raised in Brussels as a Belgian but, at the same time, feeling that I wasn't necessarily from here.

Stromae

TimeFeelingSameI Was RaisedHere

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Robert Urich

HealthHealthyInsideOutsideStarts

Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.

Rory Stewart

SuperheroBeingBit

As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.

Ronen Bergman

TimeI AmWarRight PersonThink

I eat death threats for breakfast!

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

DeathBreakfastEatThreats

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

Josh Turner

LoveWaterBlackTreesSoilPine

There've been a lot of TV programs on me in Russia.

Bryan Fogel

MeRussiaBeenTVLotPrograms

My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me - San Francisco was a real refuge.

Winona Ryder

FamilyPeopleMeProblemsThought

I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon d'Or, that would be historical.

Sergio Ramos

GoodMeCareerThingsHistorical

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