Trixie Mattel (Brian Michael Firkus) Quotes

Dark comedy helped me survive.

Trixie Mattel

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• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Great
  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• 'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Popularity
  • Stardom

• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Long
  • Island

• I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • World
  • Good
  • House

• The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Practice
  • Sharing

• One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Life
  • Money
  • Poor

• I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Husband
  • Enjoy

• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• It was terribly difficult. It's not something I ever wanted in my life. Naively I just thought, 'oh I've got this great part'. I never thought about the reality of all the stuff that went with it. I'm actually quite a shy person when I'm not on stage.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • People
  • Friends

• Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes.

  

  The Weeknd

• I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.

  

  David Cohen
  • Team

• I expect myself to be the best player I can be. I really believe I can be one of the best who's ever played. That's how hard I work. That's going to be my mindset no matter where I am or what I'm doing.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Player

• The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Aids
  • Disesase

• As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Life

• Like what you do, and then you will do your best.

  

  Katherine Johnson

• What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Giving
  • Meaningful
  • Steps

• Dark comedy helped me survive.

  

  Trixie Mattel
  • Dark comedy