Edmund White Quotes

When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.

Edmund White

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I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

Andrea Mackris

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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Andres Segovia

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I knew from being pregnant that you can be very strong. You're still very capable. Especially if it was stuff you were able to do before.

Melanie Scrofano

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As Washington prospers, workers suffer.

Jeff Sessions

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Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

John Sandford

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'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

Steve Erickson

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To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

Rufus Wainwright

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There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

Josh Charles

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Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.

Don Winslow

TimeWordsMeProblemHorseYou

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Augusto Roa Bastos

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Paris is always a good idea.

Audrey Hepburn

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