Amanda Lepore Quotes
When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.
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I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.
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When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."
