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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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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I do love giving advice, but I try not to forget how flawed I am as well. And how many mistakes I've made.
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In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.
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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
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I didn't feel like I belonged with my mom. And I didn't feel like I belonged with my dad. Since they were separated, I kind of felt like I didn't belong anywhere. So my grandparents gave me that stability, gave me the feeling like I had something and I came from some place.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
