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Edmund White Quotes

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

Edmund White

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good I Am Better Feel Knowing Names

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Jim Webb

Honor Find Country Way Serve Your

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

Jill McCorkle

Education Love Direction Think Kind

Wall Street's biggest fight with Obama was over the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which Obama signed into law in the summer of 2010.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Fight Law Wall Summer Street Over

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

John Muir

Inspirational Mountains Sun Greeting

I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I'm this role model. So that means I can't mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.

Amir Khan

People Me Back Down Role Model Mess

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

Solange Knowles

People Think Monuments Sales Need

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Sienna Miller

People Acting Celebrity Open Film

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

Robert Forster

Looking Feeling Now Never Where Our

My parents were truly severe.

Miuccia Prada

Parents Severe Were Truly

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Josh Billings

Remember Nothing Poor Costs

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

Deepak Chopra

Body Consciousness Activity Becomes

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Christopher Lasch

Lie Child Ownership New Desire Toys