Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
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It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
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Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
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I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
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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.
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There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.
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Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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Political movements always belong to the young.
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Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?
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But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
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To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
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Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
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A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
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The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
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I have a lot of faith in President Obama. The thing that seems to be true of him is that he doesn't speak when you would expect him to speak. He's very measured in his response to things. He likes to get all the facts first before he shoots his mouth off. It makes me crazy; it makes a lot of people crazy.
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There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.
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I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!