"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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Harvey Fierstein

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“How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?”
“When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.”

Source : James Hutton (1795). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations”, p.109, Library of Alexandria
“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”

Source : Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950
“With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.”

Source : Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.220, Simon and Schuster
“It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .”
“Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.”
“One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'”
“A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.”

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