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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
Harvey Fierstein
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Harvey Fierstein
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
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I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
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I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.
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How time flies when you're doin all the talking.
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Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
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CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.
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When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
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When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
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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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State sanctioned marriage is a civil contract period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
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Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
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In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime define oneself
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