Harvey Fierstein Quotes
I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
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An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.
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I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.
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Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.
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I think recreations are a good thing if done right because it can be very dangerous also. If you do something which goes wrong, then people probably won't like it because they are attached to that old version of the song... So, recreations can be a little tricky.
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I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.
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I love Mexican food.
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
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I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.
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I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
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There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play for that matter - 'I believe!'
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You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
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Zombies cannot run.
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Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
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Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.
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If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
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I love drag queens and they love me.
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I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.
