"Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it."

-- Elaine Stritch

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“Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?”
“The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.”
“I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.”
“The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.”

Source : "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.
“Well, none of it would ever end if she was too afraid for it to begin.”
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
“We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.”

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