"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.“
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"In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky."
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"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."
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"I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
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