Wendy Wasserstein Quotes

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Wendy Wasserstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1950 - January 30, 2006

Topics

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I thought I was funny as a kid.

Jo Brand

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Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.

Andrew Breitbart

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Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.

Maynard Webb

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I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.

John Updike

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

Mickey Rourke

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I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Mike Leigh

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For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.

Jay Parini

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By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

Joseph Brodsky

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The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

Jordan Peterson

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I am a closet metal fan.

Jon Gries

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I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

Dick Cavett

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