The Wizard Quotations

I don't have economic pressure anymore. ... You know, there will be a single mother out there who will understand nothing means more to me than the fact I don't have to worry about (money) anymore because it's a difficult way to live.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

If you're working in a restaurant, you can't play at being a waitress. Food gets to the table or it doesn't, and you're paid to get it there. It's a straightforward exchange. Now (in Bait and Switch ), I entered a world where so much depends on your personality and self-presentation. I found that very murky.

beyond about March 2004 if it chose not to keep individual units deployed to Iraq for longer than one year without relief.

kind of made my life difficult, because my script was around before they came around and they had a lot of bigger clout attached to it.

We can argue forever what personhood means, but there is no empirical or logical way to prove it. It's the beginning of the argument, not the endpoint.

Auntie Em: For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!

Dorothy: Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.

Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now.

feel a certain sense of rejection and inadequacy. I was doing everything I was told to do. It couldn't all have been because I had the wrong lapel pin. I just felt like I couldn't get in. I could not make myself visible.