Harvey Fierstein Quotes
Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really go out at all.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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If you don't like me, it's your problem.
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I do movies I would go to see.
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In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.
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I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''
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Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
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My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.
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It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.
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In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
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Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.
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Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.
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Women fail, very simply, if they have no guidance and friendships in art, if they are not perceived as, or permitted to be, artists, and if they have no institutional access.
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Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
