#om

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#angeles #availability #coconut #committed #dinner

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

— Wendy Wasserstein

#hide #pain #real #real reason #reason

Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up. ↗

— George Weah

#children #classrooms #get #giving #go

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

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there. ↗

— Gedde Watanabe

#few #how #look #minorities #out

We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there). ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#back #cinema #felt #got #had

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 think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#his #i #i think #last #pile

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#being #dollars #earned #find #five

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