Stephen McCauley Quotes
When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.Stephen McCauley
Quotes to Explore
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Baldwin Spencer -
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
Salmon Portland Chase -
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman -
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray -
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
Ed Markey -
Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
Nazanin Boniadi
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
Warren Christopher -
Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
Viktor Orban -
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
Garry Hynes -
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
Gary Peters -
I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
Becky G -
I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
Parker Posey
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I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.
Gail Devers -
From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
Ferdinand Buisson -
My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
Haley Bennett -
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
Matthew Simpson -
The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.
Ashley Graham -
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
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The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
James Lipton -
I get that a lot because I've hung around with a lot of artists and I'm very close to a lot of them. I'm very involved in their work; I think a lot of my ideas have grown out of it, and that there's been some give and take.
Frank Gehry -
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
J. William Fulbright -
Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.
Amy Schumer -
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
Mackenzie Astin -
When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
Stephen McCauley