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Stephen Adly Guirgis Quotes

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american

Topics

Time Champion Trying Talk Write

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

John J. McLaughlin

Opinion Questions Data Want Over

Wasting brain power ruminating about things you can't control drains mental energy quickly. The more you think about problems you can't solve, the less energy you'll have leftover for more productive endeavors.

Amy Morin

Power Brain Control Energy Think

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Simon Kuznets

Universe Trying Find Be Prepared

There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.

Tommy Lee Jones

River People Looking Destiny Country

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

Music Words Poetry Doing You Want

No, I'm a flirtatious person; I'll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I'm so into the music, and I'm in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That's not an exaggeration.

Missy Elliott

Music Day Night Long Person Hard

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

Lorna Luft

Childhood American Now Latina Air

I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids.

Jonathan Groff

School Awards Watching Up Bring TV

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I Am Someone DJ Never Sound Percent

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Douglas Dunn

Poetry Impact You Understand Expect

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Chili Davis

End Lost Games Out Playoffs Been

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

Claire Forlani

Love Friend Vacation Los Angeles See