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Sasha Velour Quotes

The loss of my mom really inspired me to go to a place with my performances that were emotionally honest, and I found that audiences really responded to that. People need to see heartbreak transformed into beauty.

Sasha Velour

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 25, 1987

Topics

Beauty People Me Mom Loss Place

I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

John Galliano

Father Gay Said Never Him Pretend

I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

John Howe

Work Opportunity Interesting Website

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Robert Kennedy

Children World Accounting Generation

There's a massive opportunity as more and more millennials and others in cities switch over from car ownership to transportation as a service. They are picking Lyft, and we want to stay focused on that big opportunity.

John Zimmer

Car Opportunity Service Stay Focused

I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.

Amitava Kumar

Mother Past Friends You Letters

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.

Ruth Glick

Myself Me New Want Rights Publish

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

Miles Davis

Together You Play Rock Way Playing

If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres, and I'd certainly have more individual titles to market, since it's much easier to write pure genre fiction than it is to create something different.

Chet Williamson

Create Horror More Write Individual

I didn't have the luxury of devoting myself entirely to not-for-profit activities.

Christie Hefner

Myself Luxury Activities Entirely

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Augusto Pinochet

Democracy Sometimes Blood Must

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Money Survive America Tax Why Hard

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Alice Dreger

Will Mean Liars May Us Exist