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Edmund White Quotes

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1940

Topics

Sympathy AIDS General Won Longer

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

Andrea Riseborough

Women Time Men Complex Seen Film

God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.

Good God Community People Outside

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

Purpose Support People Me Table

Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected - and on terms that Americans had fantasized about for 45 years?

Michael Beschloss

History Great War Cold View Credit

I have no idea who first coined the word 'Abenomics.' It was not my original term for the set of anti-deflation, growth-promotion policies I am now pursuing.

I Am Now First Original Idea Set

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

Love Good Music Me End Artist

It's always interesting when people are sort of broken. I think it's one of the most interesting qualities that human beings have is that broken people can fix themselves sometimes.

Broken People Think Interesting Fix

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

Health Silence Broken Insecurity

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

Culture People You Look Know Say

Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.

Michael T. Flynn

Decisions Poor Safe Us Made Less

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Art Myself Woman World Think Wish

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Good Women Men You Say Never

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