Dan Savage Quotes
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu.
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Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
