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"[It's about] meeting somebody that you think [you] could ... easily fall in love with ... but they, ah, they in fact play for a different team."

--Actor and rock band singer Russel Crowe, talking how his song "Other Ways of Speaking" was inspired by his friendship with Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19 1962), better known as Jodie Foster, is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, 3 BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few select , as quoted September 11 on Salon.com

"`Playing for a different team' could mean a lot of things."

--Jodie Foster's publicist, Pat Kingsley Pat Kingsley is a publicist who worked for Tom Cruise for 14 years. Through her public relations firm, PMK, she has also represented Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Courtney Love, and Al Pacino. External links
  • Cruise Control, an article from Slate
, responding to Crowe, as quoted September 11 on Salon.com

"I built picket fences This article is about the television series. For the fence variety, see Picket fence. For the radio/telephony term, see Picket fencing.

Picket Fences
 and church walls to protect my daughter from homosexuality in this raw and filthy manner."

--The Rev. Gene Cross of the Wesconnett Freewill free·will  
adj.
Done of one's own accord; voluntary.

Adj. 1. freewill - done of your own accord; "a freewill offering"
 Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., commenting on the banning of the poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg Noun 1. Allen Ginsberg - United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997)
Ginsberg
 (right) from the Forrest High curriculum, as quoted in the September 12 Florida Times-Union

"I have had women in my life, and sometimes men.... But you know very well that to do this work [in the fashion business], one must have a free mind.... A woman needs a lot--a lot of care."

--Designer Giorgio Armani, as quoted in the October issue of Vanity Fair

"I'm not ashamed. I've had a wonderful time."

--Gossip maven Liz Smith, on having written about her love affairs with both women and men in her new autobiography, Natural Blonde, on the September 17 edition of CBS's 60 Minutes

"I am not gay. It's just simply that I love my mother's cooking."

--Heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis, explaining how the rumors that he's gay are just a reflection of his being a "mama's boy," as quoted by Mitchell Fink in the September 18 New York Daily News New York Daily News

Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S.
 
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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Date:Oct 24, 2000
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