Harvey Fierstein Quotes

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

Harvey Fierstein

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• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • World
  • Career
  • Thoughts

• I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Fun
  • Dad
  • Like

• We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Future
  • Way

• When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Really
  • Elements
  • Filming

• Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Head
  • Coach
  • Coaches

• New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Home
  • Young

• I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Black

• Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • Media
  • Democratic

• I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Help
  • Scholars

• My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Friends
  • Parents

• If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

  

  Carole King
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Answers

• Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Words
  • Tears
  • Cutting

• We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Play
  • Cynthia

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Scene
  • London
  • Clubs

• We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Life
  • Together
  • Friendship

• In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Alive
  • London