My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage.
BETH DITTOI love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so’s head, it’s tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
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I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like “if it’s all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can”.
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I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It’s incredible – Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.
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Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that “even lesbians can have babies these days.”
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I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
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ABBA was a direct influence on me.
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I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn’t a lot of academic language being thrown around my house.
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High school wasn’t so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
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Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
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Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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