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Stephen McCauley Quotes

When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.

Stephen McCauley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1955

Topics

Work People Wait Book You Sitting

If you're given gifts or blessings in your life, it's up to you to help the guy coming up behind you.

Jimmy Smits

Life Blessings Help You Coming Up

One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.

John Astin

Great Appreciation People Fake You

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

John Cornwell

God Time Control Small Birth Still

I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

John Lydon

Great Care Staircase Perfect Meeting

At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Temptation Want Choir Never Preach

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

Michael A. Stackpole

Will Digital Off Books Publishing

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Stanley Weiser

Money Together Fool Get Together Get

When we first moved to Scarborough, there was one Sri Lankan grocery store - now there's a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that's very different from the way it used to be.

Shyam Selvadurai

You Now Want Way First Corner

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Ronald Reagan

Problems Only Them Rearrange Solve

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Wait Start You Will Always Big

I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me.

Miles Teller

Me Bad I Can Important Say Actor

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Milton Friedman

Knowledge Ideas Understanding Values