I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.
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Richard Ford
Novelist and short-story writer
I sometimes I have the inability to see how I can do what I need to do at a high enough level for me to do it.
Abby Wambach
United States international footballer, 2001–2015
I do know that women are going to fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment, equal respect…At the end of the day that is what all the women on the women’s national team deserve and we need to keep moving in that direction as a country in all the industries and obviously as a world.
Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2009–present
And in many, many parts of the world, if you’re going to deprive a parent of custody of their child, you better give them a lawyer. And we don’t. We have an unequal representation of people in our court system. And that does, I think, provide an injustice that we don’t pay enough attention to.
Arthur Ashkin
Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers
I'm making cheap electricity,
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View profile →I stopped directing movies in the late Eighties because I believed I couldn’t be a playwright and a filmmaker.
It will be great if the plays stay funny.
In life you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t complain when you pick up the bill.
When I’m ready I’ll transfer what I have to the computer and rewrite.
I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.
One day you write nothing, the next you write eight pages. It’s not in your hands.
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