Ward McAllister Quotes
The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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There are no tough guys in wrestling.
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I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
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Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
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My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.
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The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
