Rufus Wainwright Quotes

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Rufus Wainwright

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Nowadays, people often ask me when I came out, generalising from the experience of many young people who announce themselves to the world on a particular afternoon. But I did not divorce my reticence in a single sharp break. Rather, I seeped out like a spreading wine stain.

Andrew Solomon

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If you're going to be a model, what's going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you're wearing, it might come from your core being.

Andre Leon Talley

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I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.

John le Carre

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I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.

Amanda de Cadenet

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Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

Srikumar Rao

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The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

Josh Fox

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There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

Dennis Prager

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Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Deb Caletti

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You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.

Chris Zylka

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My SAG card, the first TV job that I ever had was 'Pan Am' as a reporter. But that may not be entirely true. I did some motion capture work, doing reshoots on a video game.

Colin Donnell

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The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

Bruce Feiler

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When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

Arlen Specter

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