Wendy Wasserstein Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Hate, Teenager, Technology

  Wendy Wasserstein (1990). “Bachelor Girls”, Alfred A. Knopf

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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.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Respect, Bags, Paper

  Wendy Wasserstein (1978). “Uncommon Women and Others”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Humor, Sadness, Way

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• Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Work, Way, Ambiguous

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

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• Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Mother, Genius, Christmas Eve

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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.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Success, Interesting, Curious

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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.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

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