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Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?
Harvey Fierstein
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Harvey Fierstein
Age: 71
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.
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How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
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Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
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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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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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Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
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A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
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It's through sheer will that I can sing.
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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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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
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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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It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
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I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
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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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It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
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A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
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