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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I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.
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I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
