- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.
- Editor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young writer, I questioned the idea that I had to write fiction in a world where I could write my own ethnicity only and nothing else. 'Fach' to me was a little like that. As a biracial person, that's an inherently unstable identity.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020