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• As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

  Patti Smith

  Sex, Gender, Concerned

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• It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

  RuPaul

  Sarcastic, Queens, Laughing

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• All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

  RuPaul

  Funny, Money, Sin

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• I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

  Tom Robbins

  Beach, Morning, Writing

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• I love drag queens and they love me.

  Tori Spelling

  Queens, Drag Queen

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• Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

  Bonnie Raitt

  School, Guitar, Childhood

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• An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Eye, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.237

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• I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

  Sienna Miller

  Queens, Thinking, Sequins

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• I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Needs, Stuff, Rounds

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

  RuPaul

  Naked, Born

  "The subversive genius of RuPaul". Interview with Owen Myers, www.dazeddigital.com. June 01, 015.

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  When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

  RuPaul

  Powerful, Imagination, Most Powerful

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• The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Guides

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• What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, People, Devil

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• There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

  Judith Butler

  Kind, Imitation, Gender

  "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity". Book by Judith Butler, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1990.

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• I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

  Gregory Harrison

  Needs, My Family, Stability

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• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Broken Heart, Stars

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• Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

  Greg Egan

  Flying, Kind, Pops

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• I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Travel, Men, Power

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• When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Years, Waiting, Feelings

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• We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

  RuPaul

  Naked, World, This World

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• I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Blessing, Thinking

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• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Flower, Ideas

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

  Samuel Beckett

  Real, Dark, Phrases

  Samuel Beckett (1965). “Three Novels: Molloy. Malone Dies. The Unnamable. [Translated from the French].”

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• It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

  David Johansen

  Projects

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Beautiful, Queens, Drag Queen

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