Edmund White Quotes

Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

Edmund White

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I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

John Allison

PeopleCollegeStartFeelNewOut

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

McKayla Maroney

LifeDayPeopleMeRestFace

Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.

Meghan Daum

DecisionSleepLateComplicatedKids

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Jeff Probst

IntegrityYouRulesMoralSurvivor

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

Andy Taylor

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People are made up of flaws.

Amanda Seyfried

PeopleFlawsUpMade

When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

Rivers Cuomo

LifeWorkMeRock StarYouArtist

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Luc de Clapiers

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You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

Dominic Cooper

YouKnowNeverRespondGoingRelate

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

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I think that's what you're doing when you go see a movie... projecting yourself into that situation. The more you can feel or see the thoughts of the character, I think the more you can live in that world.

Chris Doubek

LiveCharacterYourselfThoughtsYou

To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it's mine. We belong to each other, and I feel a fierce need to tell that story, and it just so happens that a lot of these characters have been residing in pretty dark worlds.

Anya Taylor-Joy

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