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Amy Gerstler Quotes

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1956

Topics

Live Transformation Confused Evolving

The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes.

Universe Interesting You Look More

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

Work Me Think You Career Seriously

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

Sigourney Weaver

Mother Smart Child Looking Thought

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

Family School Theatre Acting Street

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Soul Deep Think You Know Explore

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Community Culture Poetry Roots Song

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

Game Slow Year Dignity Sound Coward

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

People Small Relentless Industry

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.

Parents Dinner Tradition Table Up

The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

Diane von Furstenberg

Dress Body Dressing Jersey Different

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

Jealousy Successful England Countries

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

More Human Something Expressing Than

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