Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.
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All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.
Interpretation
Recognizing one's own flaws can lead to self-awareness and mental health improvement.
This quote by RuPaul suggests that engaging in creative expression, such as drag, holds therapeutic value. It highlights the concept that when individuals confront their own perceived insanity or imperfections, they begin to understand themselves better, paving the way toward achieving a more stable and sane state of mind. The act of expressing one's identity and embracing uniqueness can serve as a catalyst for personal growth and acceptance.
In practice
Using this quote to encourage someone to express themselves through art.
Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.
The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.
Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego.
I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.
Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.
From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.
Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
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