RuPaul Quotes - Page 5

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• When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.

  RuPaul

  Fashion, New York, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

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  Sarcastic, Queens, Laughing

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• I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

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  Wall, Space, Aliens

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

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  Character, Thinking, People

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• Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.

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  Girl, Boys, Rooms

  Song: LadyBoy, Album: Champion, 2009

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• No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

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  Pie, Want, Cherries

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• Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

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  Forever, Soul, Goes On

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• Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

  RuPaul

  Sharon, Clinic, Needles

  "RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: The RuPocalypse Is Here" by Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

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  Laughter, Creativity, Motivated

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

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  Thinking, Cracks, Television

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• Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.

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  Beautiful, Race, Years

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

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  Queens, Laughter, Real

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.

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  Queens, World, Something New

  "RuPaul Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 10, 2011.

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• There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

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  Track, Brain, Pace

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Don't take life too seriously.

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  Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

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  Queens, Thinking, Opposites

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• I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

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  Creating, Rocks, Atlanta

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.

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  Girl, Mother, Queens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

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  Determination, Live Life, Taken

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

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  Doctors, Important, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.

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  Writing, Magic, Bowie

  "RuPaul Really, Really Likes The Matrix". kotaku.com. May 21, 2014.

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• There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

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  Years, Careers, Long

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

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  Bullying, Culture, Obsession

  Source: www.avclub.com

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