Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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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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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.
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I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
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If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
