Armistead Maupin Quotes
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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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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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
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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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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
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As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
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There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
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I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
