Edmund White Quotes

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

Edmund White

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Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

Jim Rash

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I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

Andrew Wyeth

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I own over four ties.

Andrew Mason

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I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.

John Hillcoat

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I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

Robert Lanza

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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

Jeff Buckley

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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Michael Biehn

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Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Rush Limbaugh

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You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

Josh Hartnett

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It's weird that I'm putting my old green and gold jersey, and I'm moving on to the cardinal and white. I'm a Stanford Cardinal.

Devon Cajuste

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I have a clean image. I want to serve the people with humility and sincerity. Politicians have made use of peoples' votes but do not care for them.

Chiranjeevi

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I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

Courtney Love

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