Terrence McNally Quotes
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.
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And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.
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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
