Harvey Fierstein Quotes
I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
Quotes to Explore
-
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
-
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
-
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
-
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
-
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
-
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
-
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
-
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
-
Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
-
The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
-
Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.
-
I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
-
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
-
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
-
We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
-
Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
-
To be interesting, one has to provoke.
-
On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.
-
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
-
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
-
I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
