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Richard Corliss Quotes

You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'

Richard Corliss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 6, 1944 - April 23, 2015

Topics

Marriage Happy Woods Resolution You

I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.

School High School High Little Jock

Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.

Good Opportunity Money World Impact

Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.

Women Matters Fair Foolish Women Are

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Michael E. Mann

Looking Plan Garbage Recycling Draft

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Power Control Violence Maintenance

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

Father Morning People Said Need

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

Jonathan Lethem

Deep Fans Nerds Just Neurotic Needy

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

Jonny Wilkinson

I Am Conversation Play Head Going

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

Deborah Moggach

Shoes School Writing Start You Know

The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.

Christopher Priest

Myself Think Problem Things Handle

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

Good Never Out Going Other Neurotic

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

Life Yourself Fun Think Learn You

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