Douglas Carter Beane Quotes
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
Quotes to Explore
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.
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I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
