Quote by Harvey Fierstein
I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you – you have to go out and get it! – Harvey Fierstein

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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often its a role thats underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in. – Harvey Fierstein

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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. – Harvey Fierstein

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Change
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When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this ones too tall and that one doesnt have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one – theres a billion reasons not to hire somebody. – Harvey Fierstein

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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. – Imelda Staunton

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. – Mark Twain

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Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences. – Mitt Romney

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The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, theyre not the enemy. Theyre the people that hire you. Theyre the people that are going to give you a job. – Rush Limbaugh

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People look for their leadership to lead. – Mick Cornett

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Look, at the same time that I dont want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. Id be a baby and a fool to be like, Why are there cameras taking pictures of me? when Im on a billboard for a movie. I think thats a very absurd concept. – Jonah Hill

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Its funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. – Jimi Hendrix

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