"i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.."

-- Miranda July

#Depressing Quotes #Way Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.”
“Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.”
“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.”

Source : "RuPaul speaks about society and the state of drag as performance art". Interview with David Shankbone, October 6, 2007.
“The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.”
“No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”
“I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.”
“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
“People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.”

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