Harvey Fierstein Quotes
I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
Quotes to Explore
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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My motto is: more good times.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
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Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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So many people have so much trouble having kids.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
