Armistead Maupin Quotes
For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Now we have a gig economy where many people are holding down several jobs at once. The whole concept of a 40-hour week makes people under 30 laugh.
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Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
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For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
