Armistead Maupin Quotes
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
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Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.
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I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.
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It's impossible for five people to have the exact same ambitions all around.
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I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
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I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
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What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
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I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
