Wendy Wasserstein Quotes

#1. I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

Sarah Jessica Parker

#2. The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

Julie Salamon

#3. The trick ... is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Wendy Wasserstein

#4. One of the things about what ... I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.

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#5. Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

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#6. When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

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#8. The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

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#9. Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?

Terry Goodkind

#10. Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

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#11. The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice ... The arts' belief in potential gives each of us
both audience and creator
pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.

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#12. I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Daniel Kahneman

#13. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

Charles F. Haanel

#14. I notice that Andy is watching our exchange with the still, silent fascination of a fly on the wall that is canny enough to be aware of the existence of swatters.

Charles Stross

#15. Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, "Respect me; I'm a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

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#16. Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Chita Rivera

#17. Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it.

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#18. Never be ashamed of your problems, your body, yourself. You are worth life.

Demi Lovato

#19. I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

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#20. There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

Tom Morrison

#21. The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

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#22. No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

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#23. As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

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#24. The most difficult thing to do is drama.

Olivier Megaton

#25. To live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.

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#26. I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

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#27. Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

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#28. Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

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#29. A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

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#30. No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

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#31. Anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

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#32. The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

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#33. Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

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#34. Being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

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