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" My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business. "
RuPaul
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" If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken. "
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" Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth. "
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" Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion. "
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" I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag. "
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" My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood. "
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" In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do. "
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" It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag. "
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" I try to do three active things a day because I have to fit into costumes that are very tight. "
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" I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture - but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy. "
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" I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked. "
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" Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me. "
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" I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration. "
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" Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do. "
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