Harvey Fierstein Quotes
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.Harvey Fierstein
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls -
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
Walter Murch -
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian Mckellen -
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin -
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
Kajol
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I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
Harold Brodkey -
Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
Walt Mossberg -
I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
Sally Kellerman -
All my movies are achingly personal.
Quentin Tarantino -
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Candace Bushnell
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We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
S. Truett Cathy -
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
Edmund Phelps -
The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
Kabir Bedi -
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
B. F. Skinner -
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
Margaret Fuller
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I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers; like, I really got into Grant Morrison. From the time I was 5, I was into comic books. From the time I learned how to read, it was all about comic books.
Corey Taylor Stone Sour -
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
Ned Rorem -
The child, unhampered, does not waste time.
Caroline Pratt -
Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.
Nicholas Rodger -
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
Harvey Fierstein