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“Hollywood is built on leveraging queerness. Tucking it away when needed, pulling it out when beneficial, while patting themselves on the back. Hollywood doesn’t lead the way, it responds, it follows, slowly and far behind. The depth of that closet, the trove of secrets buried, indifferent to the consequences. I was punished for being queer while I watched others be protected and celebrated, who gleefully abused people in the wide open.”
― Pageboy
― Pageboy
“You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by.”
― Nails and Eyes
― Nails and Eyes
“This life is a long cheat, full of promises that can never be kept, errors that can never be righted, omissions that can never be filled.”
― Silver on the Tree
― Silver on the Tree
“Look for what you notice but no one else sees.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“ADHD is a challenge, not a curse. Find your strengths and let them shine.”
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