Edmund White Quotes

When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

Edmund White

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At Knopf, we look at each book on a case-by-case basis... in some cases, we think a writer might get a boost from an endorsement by a fellow writer, but in other cases, a new book will be better served by other means, such as publicity and reviews.

Sonny Mehta

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Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.

Steve Mnuchin

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'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.

Trixie Mattel

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I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

Rory Freedman

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I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine.

Michael Leunig

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I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

Jason Blum

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As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Jose Rodriguez

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I wanted to be pale. I didn't wanna go in the sun, because I was in school with a lot of white girls. I remember one girl said to me, 'You look better pale.' And I was like, 'Well, you're tan!' She was like, 'It's not the same.'

Jorja Smith

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On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.

Doug Liman

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My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

Peter Carey

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Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Two Chainz

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I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

Martha Grimes

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