Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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The intelligence of the universe is social.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
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The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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Mostly, I stand in awe of the every day women I knew from childhood that I interact with on Facebook. They struggle with juggling careers and raising children, endure hardships and occasional setbacks and yet do so with humility, grace and a sense of humor. Now that is inspiring!
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The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
