Edmund White Quotes

My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

Edmund White

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There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

Jodelle Ferland

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Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

John Ambrose Fleming

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As you grow, you stretch. You become more, and you have more to give if you've lived and learned and experienced. And I try to stay healthy. I eat as healthy as I can. I drink lots of water, and I work out just about every day of my life.

Jenifer Lewis

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From the level, both leagues are equal. You'll win no game easily. It's always a lot of work. This is true in La Liga as well as in the Bundesliga. You must always give all you have.

Toni Kroos

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Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

Tom Sizemore

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I love our daughters more than anything in the world - more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Michelle Obama

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'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Christina Ricci

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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

Antoine Fuqua

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To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.

Allan McNish

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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

William Hamilton Maxwell

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Nowadays, everyone has a stylist - we were raw, wearing 8 ball jackets with kente hats and spandex. It's a quintessential look that everyone loved.

Pepa

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