Edmund White Quotes

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

Edmund White

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LifeMenParentsFriendsProblem

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

John Hawkes

ThinkI ThinkOurselvesMysteries

It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

Jeff Bridges

HeroInterestingComedyDramaSide

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

John Schlesinger

TongueBadNeverSomethingBeen

My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater.

Shonda Rhimes

SuccessFatherImaginationMeSay

Camp is always all business.

Michael Strahan

BusinessAlwaysCamp

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

Joy Behar

FoodReachDietYouNeedSomething

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

Dick Cavett

SpaceThinkFateLossMediaYou

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

Chester Brown

MeStoryThoughtDoingPlayFirst

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

Coolio

WindowGunSmokingDrivingDownOut

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Bryant H. McGill

FailureFatherHappinessHopePeople

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Pico Iyer

TravelPeopleMeTransformationBack

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

Mark Consuelos

FamilyChildrenTimeMondayDinner

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