- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised I was living in my own universe with lots of assistants. I didn't have a cell phone; I didn't know how to use a computer. Everybody was doing everything for me. So I left and moved to New York. It was the end of an era, and I must say I found myself a bit lost. I wasn't in the protected Mugler universe any more.
- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bacteria evolve, and so they become resistant to existing drugs. Sometimes they revert, depending on how damaging the mutation is to the life cycle of the bacteria. Mutations that give rise to resistance against particular compounds do increase, and that is why you constantly have to have new ones.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why on earth is the 'New Yorker' publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the 'New Yorker' ever run photos of cute boys just because they're cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties?
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
- Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020