Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I would love to do some theater.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
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Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
