Wendy Wasserstein Quotes

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There's no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

I'm always gonna do my own thing. I wanna be something - whether I'm 19 years old working at a pet store, or I'm 19 years old with a No. 1 record - I wanna be the biggest I can be to my crowd, no matter what my crowd is.

You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself.