Douglas Carter Beane Quotes

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

Douglas Carter Beane

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• There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Never
  • Private Life

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Important
  • You
  • Blessed

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Beauty

• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Player
  • Tennis

• Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Passion
  • Universe

• I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Real
  • Future
  • Start

• You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Team
  • Smart
  • End

• Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Care
  • Win
  • Environmental

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Most
  • Go

• I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Daughter
  • Young
  • Grandchildren

• Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.

  

  Andrew Natsios
  • Future
  • Serious
  • Trouble

• Edinburgh has a similar climate to Bergen - it's very rainy and grey. There were a lot of days I'd sit inside in front of the computer, make music, and dream about summer - instead of the rainy reality outside.

  

  Kygo
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Reality

• When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • People
  • World
  • Important