Anna D. Shapiro Quotes
I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.
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The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.
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I don't have time for these clowns. I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity. They lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then look at me and they say 'I can't process it'. Well no, and you never will. Stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
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I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
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I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
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It's the best motivation to save for retirement that we've seen in America. Everybody should be in the Roth game if they can.
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Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.
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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
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It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
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I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.
