Edmund White Quotes

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

Edmund White

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I love the whole lingerie outfit - you know, thigh-high tights and garters.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

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Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

John Corigliano

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You don't naturally tend to identify with someone who's very different from you on the outside.

Travis Beacham

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A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

Roger Ailes

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I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

Masahiro Tanaka

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We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad bin Salman

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Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

Dolly Parton

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I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

Paula Danziger

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Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

Tim Wise

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We make a significant effort at Oracle to focus the organization on making customers successful in how they deploy Oracle technology and transform their business through IT.

Mark V. Hurd

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I was fortunate to be born when I was. There's been a massive rise in British cycling since I joined the junior programme when I was 17. It all started in 2004 when Chris Hoy won gold for the 1 km. time trial in Athens; when one person starts doing well, they take everyone with them.

Geraint Thomas

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As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

George J. Mitchell

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