George Colman Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
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I had about five years as a gay guy in New York after college before the whole Grindr explosion happened, where people were still going out to meet each other.
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For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.
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It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.
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Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.
