Lea DeLaria Quotes

He looked me right in the face and said, 'You fucking bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!'

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• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • You
  • Question
  • Years

• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Destiny

• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Inspire

• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Government
  • Military

• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • America
  • Always
  • Poetry

• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Language
  • Chinese
  • Stick

• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Parts

• I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Believe
  • Now
  • Champion

• I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Write
  • Obviously

• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Brother

• Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Fire
  • Trouble
  • Shells

• We gave the world dab fever!

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Gave
  • Fever

• I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Want
  • House

• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • May
  • Soul

• We need to figure out a way to create more energy on a gigawatt scale and not create so much CO2 in the process.

  

  Klaus Lackner
  • Energy

• I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces?' Why did we want to believe that Lance Armstrong really did all these things that, looking back, seemed impossible?

  

  Kevin Young
  • Believe
  • Why

• No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Country
  • Why
  • War

• I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Play
  • Wind
  • How

• As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Happy

• He looked me right in the face and said, 'You fucking bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!'

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Why
  • Smart