Harvey Fierstein Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Gay, Doors

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Believe, Everyday, Praying

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Fall, Looks, Rehearsal

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• A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Joy, Sunrise

  "Torch Song Trilogy". www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

  Harvey Fierstein

  Children, Kissing, Magic

  Harvey Fierstein (1987). “Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex”, Atheneum Books

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• As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes into making a great musical. When a show is a hit, the critics trip over themselves not knowing who to laud and applaud the loudest. It's that marvelous score, those urbane lyrics, that irreplaceable star. But only when a show is a flop, does anyone notice the book writer. And then it's always our fault.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Book, Knowing

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Roles, Want, Way

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• I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce since Eve was his second wife.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Divorce, Rights, Wife

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Country, Gay, Winter

  "Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown". www.nytimes.com. July 21, 2013.

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• A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Years, Two, Musical

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• Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Pork, Factories, Hanging Out

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Movie, Musical, Auditions

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• There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Queens, Gay, Things In Life

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Spotlight, Ifs, I Can

  "Harvey Fierstein Opens Up About His Fiery Op-Ed on Russia's Anti-Gay Campaign (Q&A)". Interview with Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Political movements always belong to the young.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Political, Movement, Young

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• In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Alive, London, Like You

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• How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Talking, Files

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sacrifice, Gay, Law

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Religious, Party, Agreement

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, Important, Agendas

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• Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

  Harvey Fierstein

  People, Way, Honestly

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• Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Smart, Yesterday, Phones

  "Reimagining the Story of Newsies" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Trust, Knows, Trust Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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