Larry Kramer Quotes
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.
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But those states that are not going to comply by Jan. 1 have been in touch with the Department of Justice. The agency has taken the practical position it is going to work with us, and we are making good-faith efforts to comply by the next federal election. I know of no state that is going to be sued for noncompliance.
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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
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Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
