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" Time will tell us what we did and didn't do. "
Harvey Fierstein
Us
Time
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together. "
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" So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol. "
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" Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973. "
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" But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing. "
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" How time files when you's doin' all the talking. "
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" Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. "
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" Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too. "
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" The world is full of more interesting things than my voice. "
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" You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it. "
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" I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything. "
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" Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise. "
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" It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as. "
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" Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war. "
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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. "
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