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"My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives."
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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"

"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"
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"I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything."

"You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again."

"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol."

"But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing."
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