Harvey Fierstein Quotes
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
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I don't like violence.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
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Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.
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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
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Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.
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You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
