Mccarter Quotes

#1. ...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.

Jeremy McCarter

#2. On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy.

Jeremy McCarter

#3. The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world.

Reggie Lee

#4. There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim. He

Pico Iyer

#5. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.

Jeremy McCarter

#6. Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?

Byron Katie

#7. Where there is a ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. If you're a white person in the wrong neighborhood, you're an underdog.

Robin Thede

#9. Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission

John Marsden

#10. Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

Anne Tyler

#11. It suggests that however innovative Obama's speeches and Lin's show might seem, they are, in fact, traditional. They don't reinvent the American character, they renew it.

Jeremy McCarter

#12. You end up hating so many people that without even noticing, you start to hate everyone. Including yourself. But that's the trick, you see? The trick that makes everything survivable. You've got to love somebody.

Patrick Ness