Terrence McNally Quotes
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
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Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
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I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
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Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.
