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Alex Steffen Quotes

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

Alex Steffen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1968

Topics

Change Society Energy Reality Going

I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'

Joe Mantello

Responsibility Diversity People You

Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.

Jennifer Egan

Change Process Slow Play My Own Own

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

John le Carre

Great War Cold Sixties Cold War

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

Amy Poehler

Daughter School Important Teachers

Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?

Stephanie Martson

Love Children People Care Feelings

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

Robin Gibb

Today Death Me Think You Want

In Peru, there is no theatre that produces an annual opera season, and though there is one orchestra in Lima, it's always struggling to survive. We shouldn't have just one orchestra, we should have 15, we should have 50! And you should start to build this from the children.

Juan Diego Florez

Children Theatre Survive Start You

I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

Chuck Inglish

Words People Cool Gold Think Doing

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

Anton Corbijn

Face Think You Know More Little

My whole M.O. in my 20s was being in as many different types of films as you can. Working with as many different types of directors as you can. I think, in part, that's what I wanted to do as an actor.

Anne Hathaway

Think You Actor Working Different

There wasn't anyone who was specifically taking me under their wing. I definitely looked up to people, though, one major person being Naomi Campbell, of course. That's, like, a given.

Winnie Harlow

People Me Person Up Being Like

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Thomas Merton

Happiness Ambition Begins Ends