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Edmund White Quotes

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Reading Distance Say Fiction Careful

Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.

People Look Find More Sound Open

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

Write Songs Lot I Write Recorded

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Business Song Forget Nashville Line

We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.

Culture Think Ownership Important

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

Day Sleep Night Dawn You Try

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

Me Growing Up Growing Kid Up Grip

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

Job Pressure Worry Career Why Over

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

Age Stupid Looking You Dangerous

In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Moon Own Take Us Telling Our

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

Love Music Deep Country Traditional

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

America Help Plan Stop Trials Cut

There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don't have the physique, the legs, to go outside.

Good Go Know Legs Inside Outside

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