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

• 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 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

• 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

• My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Life
  • Up
  • Identity

• Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Business

• I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.

  

  John Liu
  • People
  • High
  • City

• But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.

  

  Nalini Singh

• Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.

  

  El Greco
  • Knowledge
  • Painting
  • Count

• I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Want
  • Aspect

• Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Humanity
  • Creativity
  • Sick

• Dark comedy helped me survive.

  

  Trixie Mattel
  • Dark comedy