Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes
I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
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My thing is, I want to play for the team that wants me to be a part of them.
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I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.
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I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.
