Theresa Rebeck Quotes

I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.

Theresa Rebeck

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Just imagine how many more cyclists could help save our cities and prevent further global warming by adopting electric bikes, if they received strategic and financial support similar to electric car drivers.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

Meg White

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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Meister Eckhart

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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Robert Smithson

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I seem to play in spurts. Somebody will tell me about a cool game, then I'll run out and play for a bit, but then I'm done.

Matt Cain

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I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.

Jeffrey Skoll

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When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

Travie McCoy

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I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Tom Waits

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I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.

Rose Tremain

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I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

Rutina Wesley

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I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

Mick Taylor

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I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

Michael T. Flynn

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