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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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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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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If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.
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I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
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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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While choosing shows, I look at stories and the concept, and that has to be different.
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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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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
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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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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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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.
