#de

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#meeting #outgoing #president #typical #very

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#hide #pain #real #real reason #reason

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#bake #clean #clean up #death #desk

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#certainly #everything #go #i #love

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#came #death #directing #ford #frightened

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#depend #entire #excited #future #i

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#bathtub #big #had #kitchen #lard

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#follower #fun #i #leader #me

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#approach #change #color #deal #every

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#asking #been #community-based #doing #down