Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
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When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.
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A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.
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The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
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In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is.
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I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
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You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
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To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
