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Ellen McLaughlin Quotes

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.

Ellen McLaughlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: November 9, 1957

Topics

Life My Life Questions Help Go Want

I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.

John Holdren

Uniform Global Warming Planet Things

I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few boo-boos in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her and good for the children.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Life Good Children Wife Me My Life

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

Michael Beschloss

Business Beginning You Real Through

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

Meryl Streep

Remember Know Count Get Just How

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

Alva Noto

Alone Stronger Sometimes Possible

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

Tracy Chapman

Mother Growing Up Singing Growing Up

You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't want to lose either audience.

Tony Evans

Bible You Lose Want iPhone Audience

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Rita Mae Brown

Good You Manners Understand Rude

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

Don Young

You Will Happen Because Happened

L.A.'s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it's still sunny. And they're still serving Mai Tais.

Chris Pine

Wake Up Warm Easy You Place Sunny

Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.

Chris Smith

Government Society Make A Difference

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

Rick Mercer

Work Gay Always Out Work Out Would