D.A. Wallach Quotes

If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.

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• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Success
  • Strange
  • Quick

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Planet

• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Nice
  • Church
  • Jesus

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • American
  • Education
  • College

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  

  Larry David
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Party

• Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Free
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about what people like about not just vampires but supernaturally long-lived creatures in general, which is a thing that shows up in probably fifty to sixty percent of paranormal romances... And then, for some reason, I decided to reverse it.

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Life
  • English
  • Kindness

• my boyfriend is a rock god baby (and not kiss-of-death(sorry))

  

  Rachel Caine
  • God
  • Death
  • Rock

• With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Good
  • Team

• There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

  

  Douglas Leone
  • Wish

• If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • Ideas
  • Baby
  • Having A Baby