Andrew Solomon Quotes

Being gay is immutable.

Andrew Solomon

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• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Look

• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reading

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Running
  • Training
  • Year

• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Desire
  • Justice
  • Passionate

• If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • You
  • Will
  • Intellectual

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Listening

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Confidence

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Being
  • Inside
  • U.S.

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Kind
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.

  

  Win Butler
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Real
  • War

• I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Live
  • House
  • Beautiful

• I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.

  

  David Ebershoff
  • People
  • Up
  • Religious

• I mean, I feel like I'm in a unique position as host, because think about it: What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Gay
  • Unique

• Being gay is immutable.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Gay
  • Immutable