Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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I don't do meetings.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'
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I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.
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My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
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I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me.
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Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
