Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Society, they look down on teenage moms and dads, but I think those people are just jealous because they'll never know what it's like to be raised by someone who's still being raised.

Jermaine Fowler

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The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.

Jeff Giles

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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Alva Myrdal

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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Roger Ebert

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I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.

Jonathan Levine

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After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.

Courtney Barnett

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When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

Claire Coffee

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Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.

Brit Morin

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You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.

Arvind Gupta

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Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

William Vickrey

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