Harvey Fierstein Quotes
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Quotes to Explore
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
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I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.
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All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
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I was definitely inspired by Madonna.
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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
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As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
