Wendy Wasserstein Quotes

• No vivas por debajo de las expectativas. Sal ahí fuera y haz algo extraordinario.

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  Graduation, Encouraging, Dream

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• I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”

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  Girl, Drama, School

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• No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

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  Mother, Women, Successful

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• The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

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  Signatures, Tenacity, Continuity

  Wendy Wasserstein (2001). “Shiksa Goddess”, p.124, Vintage

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• The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.

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  Art, Pride, Voice

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• The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

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  Pain, Real, Comedy

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• Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

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  Commitment, Causes, Plans

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

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  Writing, Successful, Intelligent

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• The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

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  Believe, Struggle, Birth

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

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  Years, Family And Friends, Littles

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• I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

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  Becoming, Talk To Me, Assertive

  Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.

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  Writing, Character, Long

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• The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

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  Happiness, Issues, Self

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• I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

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  Lying, Imagination, Expectations

  "The Heidi chronicles and other plays". Book by Wendy Wasserstein, November 18, 1988.

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• As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

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  Food, Eye, Loss

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• No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

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  Solitario, Soledad, Estar Solo

  Isn't It Romantic act 1, sc. 6 (1983)

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• The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

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  Husband, Years, Opposites

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• Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

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  People, Mind, Asking

  "Bachelor Girls".

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• Ser adulto significa asumir responsabilidades por ti mismo, por tus hijos y -aquí está la gran curva- por tus padres.

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  Niños, Significado, Responsabilidad

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Un asesor dietético me dijo una vez que todas las personas con sobrepeso están enfadadas con sus madres y canalizan sus frustraciones comiendo en exceso. Así que supongo que eso significa que todas las personas delgadas son felices, tranquilas y han resuelto sus enredos edípicos.

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  Mother, Mean, Frustration

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Personalmente no paso mucho tiempo pensando en ser gracioso. Para mí siempre ha sido una forma de arreglármelas, una forma de ser simpático y, al mismo tiempo, de mantenerme al margen. Cuando hablo, no es porque tenga alguna respuesta en particular; más bien, tengo el deseo de pinchar la pretenciosidad de aquellos que parecen tan seguros de que la tienen.

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  Humor, Thinking, Desire

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

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  Writing, Play, Needs

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• I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

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  Girl, Thinking, Hands

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

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  Sloth, Movement, World

  Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.19, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.

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  Live Life, Lucky

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