Dan Savage Quotes
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I miss baseball.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
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I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.
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Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
