Edmund White Quotes

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

Edmund White

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It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

Jim Ratcliffe

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I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

John Carpenter

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The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Joe Torre

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There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

Anna Paquin

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Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

Michael Hintze

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You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

Michael Bloomberg

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I have a lot of hair, and it's quite heavy: Sometimes I'll braid it for a match so it's all together.

Ana Ivanovic

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My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.

Shy Glizzy

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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Robert E. Lee

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Unfortunately, I've got airplanes that I can't even afford to use today that are sitting there. I'm still paying insurance on them; I'm still paying payments.

Robby Gordon

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From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.

Ron Howard

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If you haven't seen me lasso, you haven't lived.

Ross Mathews

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