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As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

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Harvey Fierstein
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.
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