Dan Savage Quotes
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
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I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
