Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.
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Age for me is just a number.
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Think and grow rich.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating…Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun
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Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.
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Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.
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The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.
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Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.
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The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.
