Dan Savage Quotes

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

Dan Savage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1964

Topics

PeopleStartFeelEnoughYouGay

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

John Burroughs

WorkHappinessMomentI AmHappy

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

Joel Salatin

TalentPeopleStorytellingNeedPart

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon

MusicRespectArtMeBelieveYou

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Robert Rainy

PracticeChurchMoreWorshipGifts

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

Anna Deavere Smith

WriteBigIntenseAboutI Write

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

Shoshannah Stern

FamilyCommunicationI AmPeopleUp

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

Tony Goldwyn

GoodWritingThinkDoingLongWant

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

Rose Byrne

LoveSomeoneYouOutfitKnowStreet

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

Rosecrans Baldwin

MemoriesLosingHumanityYouLose

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

Mick Fleetwood

PositiveMeThinkFeelYouPlace

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Michael Specter

WorkDayPeopleEvery DayCoatsLab

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

Joshua Foer

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