Maxine Mailman Quotes & Sayings

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. — Brian Eno

[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that. — Amy Poehler

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably. — Storm Jameson

Racism was becoming more and more practical. — Howard Zinn

We weep when we are born, not when we die! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I think that every one whom you may ask how to write a play will reply, if he really can write one, that he doesn't know how it is done. It is a little as if you were to ask Romeo what he did to fall in love with Juliet and to make her love him; he would reply that he did not know, that it simply happened.
Well, my dear friend, if you want me to be quite frank, I'll own up that I don't know how to write a play. One day a long time ago, when I was scarcely out of school, I asked my father the same question. He answered: It's very simple; the first act clear, the last act short, and all the acts interesting. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government. — J. D. Hayworth

Last night I dreamed about television. I woke up crying. — Sherman Alexie

Television is light filled with someone else's anxiety. — Steve Aylett