Karen DeCrow After ‘Roe v. Wade’ – when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 – I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not. – Karen DeCrow Abortion Quotes Birth Quotes Control Quotes Conversation Quotes Court Quotes Legalized Quotes National Quotes Roe Quotes Supreme Quotes Wade Quotes The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw ‘Faust’ there – I did – knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror. At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
August Wilson From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don’t write political plays. – August Wilson
Aksel Hennie If you sit in a room and think you’re the only one that needs to be loved, then you have a big problem. If you are needy, you have to give the same as you need. If I need love, I have to give love. But that’s just a personal thing. – Aksel Hennie
Eazy-E What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison. – Eazy-E
Adoniram Judson I thought they loved me, and they would scarcely have known it if I had died. All through our troubles, I was comforted with the thought that the brethren in Maulmain and America were praying for us, and they have never once thought of us. – Adoniram Judson
Alexandre Pato In football, nothing is certain, so it’s no problem to return to Corinthians. – Alexandre Pato
Harris Dickinson I used to work at a Youth Theater and I worked on directing a variation of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ – Harris Dickinson
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