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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Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt.
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I'm just really supportive of everyone - even though I believe that things should be equal, people have different circumstances in their life that have taught them to be who they are. Even if I don't agree with them, I don't judge them. I'm a really non-judgmental person.
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But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
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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.
