Bartlett Sher quote: "Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now."

I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, b...
BARTLETT SHER

That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us l...
BARTLETT SHER

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
BARTLETT SHER

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
BARTLETT SHER

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to...
BARTLETT SHER

With both plays, you have people standing around doing nothing while other people are doing terrible...
BARTLETT SHER

Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's no...
BARTLETT SHER

I thought it would be kind of fun to open our next season on a very strong, classical note,
BARTLETT SHER

For a town this size, the level of the arts it supports is extraordinary.
BARTLETT SHER

[Nominated for a 2005 Tony Award for his luminous staging of] The Light in the Piazza, ... Awake and...
BARTLETT SHER

The play is funny. And people love baseball. But there's a moral lesson. 'Rounding Third' is particu...
BARTLETT SHER

I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
EDEN SHER

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.
EDEN SHER

I love oral hygiene.
EDEN SHER

Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my foreve...
EDEN SHER

I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditiona...
EDEN SHER

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was...
EDEN SHER

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especi...
EDEN SHER

I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough youn...
EDEN SHER

The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat abo...
EDEN SHER

On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christ...
EDEN SHER

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in a...
EDEN SHER

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
EDEN SHER

I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance base...
EDEN SHER

I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
EDEN SHER

I have some sarcastic sides of me.
EDEN SHER

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it...
EDEN SHER

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER

You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER

Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actuall...
BARBARA SHER

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in ...
BARBARA SHER

You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can...
BARBARA SHER

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caus...
BARBARA SHER

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you...
BARBARA SHER

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or late...
BARBARA SHER

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the wo...
BARBARA SHER

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHER

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
BARBARA SHER

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we'r...
BARBARA SHER

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing...
BARBARA SHER

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
BARBARA SHER

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn...
ANTONY SHER

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing...
BARBARA SHER

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh ...
BARBARA SHER

Isolation is a dream killer
BARBARA SHER

'Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hou...
BARBARA SHER

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of...
ANTONY SHER

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakes...
ANTONY SHER

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years bein...
ANTONY SHER

I have no cynicism at all.
ANTONY SHER

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have...
ANTONY SHER

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you act...
BARBARA SHER

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commande...
ANTONY SHER

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHER

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
EDEN SHER

I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts...
ANTONY SHER

And our dreams are who we are.
BARBARA SHER

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everythi...
BARBARA SHER

''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the ho...
BARBARA SHER

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.
CRAIG SHER

It doesn't matter if you have a D, or an I or an R after your name if you have a job - a J-O-B. ...
SHER VALENZUELA

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love......
BARBARA SHER

And our dreams are who we are
BARBARA SHER

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
ANTONY SHER

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love...W...
BARBARA SHER

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable
BARBARA SHER

When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an out...
BARBARA SHER

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a da...
ANTONY SHER

If you're sitting in a corporate boardroom in one of the other 50 states deciding where to put 100 s...
CRAIG SHER

How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one impo...
BARBARA SHER

They're fine people. I understand what they're going through. This is the world of democracy.
CRAIG SHER

I think everybody gets what they wanted. Nobody ever really objected to residential.
CRAIG SHER

We are grateful to have been able to contribute to the development of Tampa's historic Latin Quarter...
CRAIG SHER

It was a matter of whether we should spend more money on a project that never really provided any re...
CRAIG SHER

We stand committed to pursue the peace process, but not under the threat of terrorist attacks. We we...
GILEAD SHER

Whatever comes out of direct negotiations between the parties as a result of negotiations and debate...
GILEAD SHER

The last leg in the negotiations is always the most difficult. It requires courage. It requires a lo...
GILEAD SHER

I would say that definitely yes, it's possible to finish the conflict and reach a reasonable agreeme...
GILEAD SHER

It's not unusual for the bikers not only to take on their rivals, but to eat their own.
JULIAN SHER

The hatred between these two groups has been quite longstanding.
JULIAN SHER

Very tough, but never able to take a foothold in Canada because the Hells Angels -- through a combin...
JULIAN SHER

Since then I’ve come to believe you don’t always have to use things you love, and it’s not alw...
BARBARA SHER

I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
BARBARA SHER

Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold thei...
DAN BARTLETT

The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the count...
DAN BARTLETT

When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out a...
DAN BARTLETT

I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight...
DAN BARTLETT

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
DAN BARTLETT

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
DAN BARTLETT

It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because...
DAN BARTLETT

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with ...
J. BARTLETT

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game'...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and ...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to w...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless p...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that ...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI

If Andrew Robb is serious about a compulsory citizenship test on Australian history, customs and val...
ANDREW BARTLETT

You always want to be sure to be aware of other aircraft,
ANDREW BARTLETT

I just didn't know how to go about it,
ANDREW BARTLETT

A little more throttle.
ANDREW BARTLETT

Give it a little more throttle.
ANDREW BARTLETT

He has been the person that allowed that to happen,
ANDREW BARTLETT

We have a representative democracy and the way senators vote on legislation or other matters is the ...
ANDREW BARTLETT

It's a huge industry, and in the case of South Australia's Port Lincoln, whole communities ride on t...
ANDREW BARTLETT

Ironically it seems in this case Mr Brogden's own party were behind pushing this fairly keenly, incl...
ANDREW BARTLETT

There is no such thing as a free lunch. What did this donation buy?
ANDREW BARTLETT

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or ...
MURRAY BARTLETT

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backsi...
STEVE BARTLETT

We lost the hose, the note, quite a bit of evidence there. It was just one thing after another.
BRUCE BARTLETT

It looked like a very solid case. You had a woman who tried to commit suicide with her kids. There w...
BRUCE BARTLETT

He got every bit of what he deserved, ... Quite frankly, if he hadn't been a juvenile, we would have...
BRUCE BARTLETT

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital...
BRUCE BARTLETT

Realistically, it's going to be very, very hard to extend existing tax cuts under current circumstan...
BRUCE BARTLETT

Morally it was wrong to do so in this situation and certainly misleading to the officer,
BRUCE BARTLETT

I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
BRUCE BARTLETT

is just seriously out of control, and this administration has not been paying attention to those pro...
BRUCE BARTLETT

It's pretty obvious Social Security is on its last legs,
BRUCE BARTLETT

They were obviously covering up for each other on the fight, both sides covering up the fight.
BRUCE BARTLETT

It was a great win. It seems like we've had a lot of obstacles this season.
BRENT BARTLETT

I'm proud of them. With all the adversity they had to overcome, that was a tremendous, tremendous wi...
BRENT BARTLETT

We still accomplished some things, but it was hard to get intense.
BRENT BARTLETT

We shot ourselves in the foot. We thought Carthage out-played us tonight.
BRENT BARTLETT

We got some awful good looks. Shots that have been falling for us.
BRENT BARTLETT

I saw it yesterday in practice. We just aren't shooting well right now. I saw the effort there.
BRENT BARTLETT

It's not her fault. She did exactly what she was asked to do.
BRENT BARTLETT

We kind of played not to lose at the end.
BRENT BARTLETT

In overtime they took the lead and we flipped a switch. We started attacking the half-court trap.
BRENT BARTLETT

Asset quality continued to improve during the quarter as we sold the only property categorized as Ot...
BOB BARTLETT

All petroleum products are just going crazy in the last few days.
BOB BARTLETT

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,
BOB BARTLETT

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of ...
BOB BARTLETT

Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
BOB BARTLETT

We're just as frustrated as our customers-this is our livelihood too. Retailers have had stunning, u...
BOB BARTLETT

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. Aft...
BRUCE BARTLETT

It's a program to make sure that we connect the dots. It's not some sort of roving domestic spying p...
DAN BARTLETT

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Ame...
STEVE BARTLETT

The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the Wh...
BRUCE BARTLETT

This was a strong repudiation of Democratic efforts to pass legislation calling for immediate, prema...
DAN BARTLETT

We're not going to question a convert on the day of his conversion, but we're glad Al Gore now agree...
DAN BARTLETT

Gore's attack on the Texas education system is a thinly veiled attempt to discredit the education re...
DAN BARTLETT

Martin Luther King Day is unique because a lot of it (service project) is family friendly. It's a da...
CHRISTINE BARTLETT

We've had a good week. We feel like the president heads out of the country on a strong note.
DAN BARTLETT

The president encountered and witnessed traffic for the first time in three years on the way to the ...
DAN BARTLETT

A policy of retreat and withdrawal will only make America more vulnerable.
DAN BARTLETT

To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.
TERRI BARTLETT

We want fresh thinking, to charge the batteries, and passionate participation.
DAN BARTLETT

Al Gore is running more than $60 million in attack ads, making his campaign the most negative in his...
DAN BARTLETT

Everybody has a full deck of cards, but nobody wants to show their cards at the same time.
CLAY BARTLETT

I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life.
MURRAY BARTLETT

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.
ROSCOE BARTLETT

You're starting to see the beginnings of a shift in the center of gravity away from Bush and his age...
BRUCE BARTLETT

The decision isn't one looking back at past performance or judgment. It was one looking forward. Jos...
DAN BARTLETT

Despite all of these grievances -- despite all of these fundamental concerns about the actions our c...
DAN BARTLETT

I didn't even know who Karl Rove was when I went over there for the interview.
DAN BARTLETT

We hope Al Gore uses this opportunity to explain why during his term, teen drug use in America nearl...
DAN BARTLETT

He has chosen at this critical time, in the middle of a presidential campaign, to inject himself int...
DAN BARTLETT

This is a huge undertaking. There are a lot of things that have to happen, and they have to happen r...
GARY BARTLETT

Right now, success is judged by how much energy is used. Think about it, the person who is successfu...
ROSCOE BARTLETT

It takes great courage to admit that you've made a mistake,
ROSCOE BARTLETT

These are not government dollars, ... These are your dollars.
ROSCOE BARTLETT

You and I need to inform the public of the peaking of oil and the energy crisis that is coming in th...
ROSCOE BARTLETT

I'm not excusing it. I'm 100%, totally against any sort of enhancement, ... But I do give Andrew an ...
STEVE BARTLETT

This is going to be a light ballot. Every 12 years, this is the smallest ballot that goes before the...
GARY BARTLETT

Why not interview those with opposing views separately and give each more than a minute or two to ma...
BRUCE BARTLETT

It probably wasn't the safest thing to do, but I didn't really think about it.
SABRINA BARTLETT

We have some very complex issues to grapple with.
DAN BARTLETT

President Bush will show that the math speaks for itself. The bottom line is that the Social Securit...
DAN BARTLETT

I predict it's going to be 70 (degrees) and sunny.
STEVE BARTLETT

It's a family-type plaza. People will make insurance payments and then do shopping in our store and ...
CYNTHIA BARTLETT

There were shortcomings. There were breakdowns in communication, things that we shouldn't be tolerat...
DAN BARTLETT

As the birthplace of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, we are curious if this will be Al Gore's last sta...
DAN BARTLETT

President Bush and Mrs. Bush are saddened by the news. It's a tremendous loss for our nation.
DAN BARTLETT

The fact of the matter is when our nation faces these type of emergencies, it unfortunately requires...
DAN BARTLETT

Rent is a real steal. It's one of the last spots to get rent along Lakewood Ranch Boulevard at a rea...
CYNTHIA BARTLETT

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own...
JOHN BARTLETT

We're a nation at war, but we do believe it's important, through privately raised money, [that] we o...
DAN BARTLETT

It is the president's decision to make and he will decide when it is appropriate to let the American...
DAN BARTLETT

It's a matter of national security. Not only do we have to contemplate other natural events that cou...
DAN BARTLETT

It's a way to unite volunteers and get everybody together to see the impact and results on the day o...
CHRISTINE BARTLETT

Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy.
MICHELLE BARTLETT

And that worked for quite a while. But it was a shortsighted point of view, ... The Impostor: How Ge...
BRUCE BARTLETT

Coral is a study in contrasts delicately engineered yet sculptural in shape. It holds a natural a...
DIXON BARTLETT

One reason coral is so pleasing is that it's a nice bridge between orange and red. It's a softer alt...
DIXON BARTLETT

Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

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