Charles Busch Quotes
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I was not an easy kid.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
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'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
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Mon triste coeur bave à la poupe.
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I actually wanted to be a tennis player.
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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
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There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.
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...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
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I know how to put on a good show, and being a top player is always a way to get fans.
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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
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At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
