Armistead Maupin Quotes
I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I love bayou life.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
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Getting into a space suit and going outside, to me, getting your peripheral vision involved and looking at the Earth was a whole different experience than looking through the window. And it's kind of the same on earth. If you're driving in a car and you see like a beautiful sunset or landscape, it looks so much better if you stop and get out and kind of take it all in and that's kind of what it's like doing a spacewalk.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.
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I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
