Theresa Rebeck Quotes

There's a thing that happens to Midwesterners - we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don't know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn't say. And that is not very East coast.

Theresa Rebeck

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So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Jim Wallis

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I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.

John Hurt

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The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

Robert Nozick

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Every night at 6:30, my entire family sits down for dinner together. It's definitely the best part of my day.

Matt Lauer

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There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?

Michael Gambon

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I sent my personal check to the Planned Parenthood of Northern New Jersey. My wife and I do every year.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

Rush Limbaugh

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There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

Martine Syms

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There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I've had trouble gaining access to certain people I'd really love to interview because they're worried I'll make fun of them. I'm a pretty private and self-conscious person, so I relate to that concern!

Lisa Hanawalt

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The emergence of cross-border coalitions and issues shows the advent of a whole new era in U.S.-Mexican and Mexico-California relations.

Denise Dresser

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