Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
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Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
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I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.
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I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
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Play fair, okay?
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
