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

Wendy Wasserstein

#Lying Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful laterÂ—and vice versa. I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.”
“Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!”

Source : Diane Duane (2003). “Deep Wizardry”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.”
“Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.”
“That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.”
“I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.”
“Where there's a will there's a detective story.”
“There's been no top authority saying what ***** does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.”

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