Wendy Wasserstein Quotes

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Wendy Wasserstein

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• My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

  

  Karan Johar
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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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  • Up
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• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

  Sadie Frost
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  • Kids
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• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Up
  • Children
  • Home

• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Nation

• Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Children
  • You
  • Relationships

• To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Nice

• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Children
  • Car
  • Drawing

• I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Children
  • Science
  • Language

• This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Own
  • Deeds

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• [The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Spirit

• I feel I haven't been used to the fullest of my potential. There are so many genres to explore and diverse subjects to work on.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Work
  • Explore

• There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.

  

  Pauline Trigere
  • Great
  • Children
  • Mother

• Thriving economies on both sides of the border is a win-win for Arizona and Mexico, but that will only come by working together and demonstrating mutual respect.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Together
  • Respect

• It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

  

  Odell Shepard
  • Wise

• Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Children
  • Responsibility
  • Mean