Laura Wade Quotes
It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.
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Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.
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The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
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Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
