Quotes by Wendy Wasserstein - Page 1

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Wendy Wasserstein / Playwright
Comedy
Pain
Real
Hide
Real Reason
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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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Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
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Work
Ambiguous
Sentiments
Way
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Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.
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Seven
Mozart
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being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
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Humor
Sadness
Way
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Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
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Dream
Daughter
Encouraging
Graduation
Expectations
Powerful
Remarkable
Down
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The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
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Believe
Birth
Struggle
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Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
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Causes
Commitment
Plans
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I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
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Assertive
Becoming
Talk To Me
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The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.
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Continuity
Signatures
Tenacity
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
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Christmas Eve
Genius
Mother
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The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
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Technology
Hate
Teenager
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Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
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Assuming
Children
Mean
Responsibility
Responsibility Yourself Your
Curve
Grownup
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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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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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Imagination
Expectations
Lying
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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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Being Alone
Loneliness
Lonely
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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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Asking
Mind
People
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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
Hands
Thinking
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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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Needs
Play
Writing
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I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.
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Success
Curious
Interesting
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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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Women
Mother
Successful
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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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Movement
Sloth
World
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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
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Death
Respect
Bags
Clean
Paper
Respectable
Want
Respect Myself Me
Death Myself Me
Bag
Bake
Clean Up
Desk
Grown-Up
Jump
Paper Bag
Shake
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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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Family And Friends
Littles
Years
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One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.
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Taken
Thinking
Writing
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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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A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
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Frustration
Mean
Mother
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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 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
Opposites
Years
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Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.
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Humor
Desire
Thinking
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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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Intelligent
Successful
Writing
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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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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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Character
Long
Writing
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