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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I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was.
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I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up.
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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.
