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" The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue. "
Tituss Burgess
Within
Because
Country
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" My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It's one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don't know why she added an 's,' but she just did. "
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Bible
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" When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated. "
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New York
Win
Thought
" When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it. "
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House
" I'm black. I'm gay. I'm culturally Christian. I am a walking target on so many levels, and it is horrifying and a cross that very, very many of us who look like me have to bear. "
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Gay
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" I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning. "
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Fried
Secret
" I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd jobs to pay the bills before that. And being in New York for the first year, I got here in 2003, and it was a very exciting but very scary time not knowing how you would make ends meet and me trying to meet people. "
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Not Knowing
People
" I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it. "
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New
Writing
Wife
" To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have. "
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Me
You
Hope
" One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.' "
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Dinner
Food
Go
" I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut. "
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Think
I Think
Got
" I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line. "
Tituss Burgess
Always
Soul
Heart
" I don't enjoy attention as much as people may think I do. "
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Think
People
Attention
" I fell asleep during 'The Dark Knight Rises.' I fell asleep during 'The Hunger Games,' all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I'm asleep! "
Tituss Burgess
Games
Dark
Hunger
" One thing I refuse to do is force it. So I've canceled many auditions because nothing has come up, and I don't want to waste anybody's time. God forbid they outright give it to me and I don't connect with it. "
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Me
Want
Nothing
" I don't like flashy things. "
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Flashy
Things
Like
" Here's what I'm going to say about that: my personal thought about the brilliance of 'Peeno Noir' as proven by the fans' appreciation is that, when watched back, what makes it so exciting is the random locations and the random costume changes and the multiple shots that we've done all over the city. "
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Random
Thought
Say
" I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails. "
Tituss Burgess
Sit
Write
Journal
" When I cook at home, most of the people I cook for want to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking. I love nothing more than someone monitoring how much salt I put into something, how much pepper I add - but nothing that you can offer is going to sway how I decide to deliver information to you; you'll either receive it or you won't. "
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Home
Kitchen
Love
" This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing. "
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Gone
Time
Want
" The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me. "
Tituss Burgess
Get
Older
Easier
" When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is. "
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Just
Turn
Your
" I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's. "
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Singing
Communication
Cooking
" Miserable people tend to act out. "
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Out
People
Tend
" Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to be Christian, who wouldn't want to leave? I couldn't wait to get out of there. "
Tituss Burgess
Christian
Gay
Black
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Need
Morning
Coffee
" I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don't want to waste anyone's time. "
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Know
Me
People
" I could not leave Georgia fast enough. "
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Could
Georgia
Fast
" Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook? "
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Why
Dinner
" Carol Kane is just as warm as you would think she is, and she is so smart and really a living legend and has so much to offer. "
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Smart
You
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