Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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We want people to leave the show thinking, 'Man, those socialists are a sexy bunch and they can dance, too'.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
