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People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door. ↗

— Guy Fieri

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#define #definition #life #your #yourself

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#even #heavy #ideas #movies #plot

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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