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Edmund White Quotes

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Community Political Literature Body

What I'm most proud of is that I paid off all the debts of my household.

Proud Paid Off Debts Most Household

Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

Melanie Lynskey

Love I Am People I Can Out Handle

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Robert Griffin III

Me Think Career I Can Try Over

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

Myself People Want See I See Buy

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be friendly and say 'please' and 'thank you.' I try and remember it and use it.

World Think Thank You Remember You

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

Boss Decisions Down Go Movies Will

Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.

Success Great Men Grow Canada Young

Real Madrid were the ideal club for me, and, when I knew they were interested, I couldn't think about anything else.

Me Think Real Club Anything Knew

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

Women Music Men Movies Awe Who

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

Louis Tomlinson

Chance Think Thought Stand Doing Up

I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

Time Basketball Chance You Watch

The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community.

Community Justice I Am Caring People

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