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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My only regret is to die four pages too soon.
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But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then—I think today—did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.
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When you activate your gut feelings and listen to your heartbreak—when you follow the interoceptive pathways to your innermost recesses—things begin to change.
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At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
