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.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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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.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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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.
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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.'
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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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.
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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.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.
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I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
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The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.
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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.
