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Susan Estrich Quotes

When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East why they're determined to go West, I hear what you'd expect: new challenges, different weather, boyfriends, girlfriends, to make a name... They laugh when I say, 'But your poor mother.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 16, 1952

Topics

Mother New York People Weather Name

I think that fiction has a certain power.

Power Think Fiction I Think Certain

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

Space People Theatre Page Conscience

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.

John Corigliano

Competition People Win Think Done

People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.

People Me Think Help Hands I Can

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Stellan Skarsgard

Funny Childhood Control Reality Own

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Sidney Blumenthal

Yourself People Stand Up Think Stand

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

Rapper Singer Who Like Thinks

I am an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry. Somewhere early on when I couldn't get something I wanted through the system, I threw up my hands and tried to figure a way to get it done myself. A lot of it came from my upbringing. My dad was an entrepreneur.

Myself I Am Hands Early Entrepreneur

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

New York Parents City College New

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

Nature Human Nature Will Human Fact

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Time Blues Yesterday Away Your

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

Freedom Day Democracy Honor America

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