Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
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I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.
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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.
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It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
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My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.
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Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.
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If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.
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Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
