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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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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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.
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It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.
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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
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When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual.
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I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.
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I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
