Gilbert Baker Quotes

When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they struggled with that. Everybody knew I was gay. They just didn't want to talk about it.

Gilbert Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 2, 1951 - March 31, 2017

Topics

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My father was often away with the army, or in London, but mum did a lot of the cooking. She never liked cakes - not baking. Meat. Fish. That's what she did.

Tom Parker Bowles

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I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

Tom Wesselmann

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There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.

Romola Garai

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I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

Michael Steger

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I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Miranda Lambert

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I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.

Jon Jones

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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Jonathan Franzen

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Denis Diderot

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I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

Christopher Lee

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I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

Bradley Cooper

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When I first started, I wore Ceil Chapman gowns. I've been wondering for years what happened to the Ceil Chapman line of clothing.

Aretha Franklin

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