“And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.”
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“Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”
“Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.”
“Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.”
“I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.”
“It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.”
“I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.”
“As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.”
“I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thing—at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets.”
“My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”
“I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man.”
“Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.”
“The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.”
“I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.”
“That man made me miss my destiny.”
“I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.”
“I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”
“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.”
“Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.”
“I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.”