Dr. Mira Wiegmann quote: "I think that in the postmodern era in which we live we're influenced by attitudes for the past and the present. One of the things that I think Stoppard does well is that he pushes us toward this middle ground, allowing....a balance between emotion and reason."

The play juxtaposes scenes from the present with scenes that were happening in 1809 and 1812.
DR. MIRA WIEGMANN

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasie...
MIRA SORVINO

Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in...
MIRA GRANT

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us ...
MIRA NAIR

Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep sh...
MIRA GRANT

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really ...
MIRA SORVINO

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
MIRA BAI

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
MIRA SORVINO

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope...
MIRA GRANT

The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it ...
MIRA NAIR

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gav...
MIRA SORVINO

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those wh...
MIRA NAIR

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. The...
MIRA NAIR

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don'...
MIRA SORVINO

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the ...
MIRA NAIR

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too...
MIRA NAIR

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten ...
MIRA SORVINO

The hospital is using the lock-out as a bargaining tactic.
MIRA PRASAD

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all scream...
MIRA NAIR

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hang...
MIRA NAIR

Katwe is fifteen minutes from my home. It's entirely about knowing it from the inside. For insta...
MIRA NAIR

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some f...
MIRA NAIR

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot ...
MIRA NAIR

Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you'r...
MIRA NAIR

I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda mos...
MIRA NAIR

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo...
MIRA NAIR

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, r...
MIRA NAIR

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and...
MIRA GRANT

I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.
MIRA NAIR

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do thin...
MIRA NAIR

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challeng...
MIRA GRANT

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and ...
MIRA GRANT

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the wor...
MIRA NAIR

We're going to be a family of four.
MIRA SORVINO

We felt she should have her own history of sexual abuse . . . which makes her feel very deeply about...
MIRA SORVINO

These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families...
MIRA SORVINO

I (didn't) want to feel embarrassed doing this really zany character.
MIRA SORVINO

Yeah. They're never easy to do. I don't like doing sex scenes! I feel they're really miserable to ma...
MIRA SORVINO

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people....
MIRA SORVINO

There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wan...
MIRA SORVINO

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the...
MIRA GRANT

Words have power.
MIRA GRANT

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it di...
MIRA NAIR

He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, "Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understa...
MIRA BARTOK

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in...
MIRA KOMAROVSKY

She really talks to you, doesn't she?" She asked. "it's not just you talking to her. She talks BACK....
MIRA GRANT

The bad event gave you the strength you needed in your foundation to make possible the next wonderfu...
MIRA KIRSHENBAUM

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally st...
MIRA GRANT

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.
MIRA GRANT

For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the di...
MIRA KOMAROVSKY

There was a sort of diagram. Everything else that was said was really stuff that came out of our own...
MIRA SORVINO

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wa...
MIRA GRANT

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the t...
MIRA GRANT

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little ...
MIRA GRANT

My family is vital to me - just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension.
MIRA NAIR

A lot of us feel that we are against the war; we are against profiling and are against what is happe...
MIRA NAIR

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is wh...
MIRA NAIR

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think tha...
MIRA BARTOK

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose w...
MIRA GRANT

Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, librari...
MIRA JACOB

Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told w...
MIRA JACOB

I like to be unabashed, which is an Indian trait, both emotionally and visually. It's important to h...
MIRA NAIR

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an u...
MIRA NAIR

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. Yo...
MIRA SORVINO

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this ...
MIRA GRANT

In Uganda, I am surrounded, unfortunately, by evangelicals; I can't bear it. Every night I hear ...
MIRA NAIR

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my ...
MIRA NAIR

I can see every day that a squirrel's perfectly at home in a world of trees. But imagine taking that...
MIRA KIRSHENBAUM

Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computer...
MIRA GRANT

I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually ...
MIRA NAIR

If you've been fortunate enough to discover that the meaning of what happened to you is that you hav...
MIRA KIRSHENBAUM

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
MIRA NAIR

...they come to us, these restless dead,
Shrouds woven from the words of men,
With trumpet...
MIRA GRANT

I immediately was captured by 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist.' It gave me a springboard into ...
MIRA NAIR

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I fel...
MIRA NAIR

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.
MIRA GRANT

I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I b...
MIRA GRANT

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.
MIRA GRANT

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.
MIRA GRANT

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.
MIRA GRANT

People crave fear.
MIRA GRANT

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.
MIRA GRANT

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.
MIRA GRANT

...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbi...
MIRA GRANT

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.
MIRA GRANT

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one.
MIRA GRANT

He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive w...
MIRA GRANT

That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, tha...
MIRA GRANT

Failure to die is always appreciated.
MIRA GRANT

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.
MIRA GRANT

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.
MIRA GRANT

I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put y...
MIRA GRANT

My father has always had just one piece of advice about zombies and ammunition, one he’s drilled i...
MIRA GRANT

You can't kill the truth.
MIRA GRANT

Are you ever not a pessimist?"

"Sometimes. But then I wake up.
MIRA GRANT

This is the truth: We are a nation accustomed to being afraid. If I’m being honest, not just with ...
MIRA GRANT

Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at...
MIRA GRANT

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.
MIRA GRANT

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that wi...
MIRA GRANT

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady g...
MIRA GRANT

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the...
MIRA GRANT

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.
MIRA GRANT

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people.
MIRA GRANT

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with ...
MIRA BARTOK

This is crap," Shaun said, withdrawing his arm.

"Right," I agreed.

"Absolutel...
MIRA GRANT

I watch on occasion, just to see what is going on. I have never really been a fan of a TV show. I do...
MIRA FURLAN

We wanted to conduct spot checks to follow up with Wal-Mart to make sure they're keeping their promi...
MIRA SIGNER

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform ...
MIRA BARTOK

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like ...
MIRA BARTOK

Because—truth?—on the scale of significance, that stuff doesn’t even register.

Wha...
MIRA LYN KELLY

it's you who makes me excited every weekend.. it's you who relieves me of my stress from the whole w...
MIRA CIELE S. BUSANGILAN

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the ot...
DR. DRE

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
DR. SEUSS

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you&...
DR. SEUSS

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behin...
DR. SEUSS

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of ...
DR. SEUSS

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ...
DR. DRE

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's real...
DR. DRE

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly ...
DR. SEUSS

Fun is good.
DR. SEUSS

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
DR. SEUSS

Only you can control your future.
DR. SEUSS

A person's a person, no matter how small.
DR. SEUSS

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.
DR. SEUSS

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started a...
DR. SEUSS

A person's a person, no matter how small.
DR. SEUSS

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
DR. SEUSS

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
DR. SEUSS

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
DR. SEUSS

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
DR. SEUSS

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'...
DR. SEUSS

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dream...
DR. SEUSS

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
DR. SEUSS

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast...
DR. SEUSS

How did it get so late so soon?
DR. SEUSS

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing ...
DR. SEUSS

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!
DR. SEUSS

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.
DR. SEUSS

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you ...
DR. SEUSS

Oh the places you'll go!
DR. SEUSS

remember that Life’s
a Great Balancing Act.
DR. SEUSS

You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!
DR. SEUSS

The more you read the more places you will go,the more places you go the more things you will learn.
DR. SEUSS

You have brains in your head you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you c...
DR. SEUSS

And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out o...
DR. SEUSS

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left. DR. SEUSS

I'm sorry to say so
but, sadly, it's true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen...
DR. SEUSS

You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-ne...
DR. SEUSS

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind
DR. SEUSS

Kid, you'll move mountains.
DR. SEUSS

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are gam...
DR. SEUSS

Out there things can happen, and frequently do,
To people as brainy and footsy as you.
And...
DR. SEUSS

So...
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're ...
DR. SEUSS

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

K...
DR. SEUSS

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! Th...
DR. SEUSS

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soo...
DR. SEUSS

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they d...
DR. SEUSS

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. but mostly...
DR. SEUSS

When you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easil...
DR. SEUSS

And when you're alone there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of...
DR. SEUSS

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any dire...
DR. SEUSS

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
DR. SEUSS

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
DR. SEUSS

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
DR. SEUSS

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to ...
DR. SEUSS

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as ...
DR. SEUSS

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on...
DR. SEUSS

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.
DR. SEUSS

Most people accept living unhappy lives because it is the only way they know, they refuse to be open...
DR. DRAGOS

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening t...
DR. SEUSS

To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
DR. SEUSS

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
DR. SEUSS

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
DR. SEUSS

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is com...
DR. SEUSS

It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.
DR. SHARPE

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
DR. HENKER

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
DR. PORSCHE

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a wa...
DR. SEUSS

I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see.
DR. SEUSS

And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)
DR. SEUSS

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...
DR. SEUSS

People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I lov...
DR. SEUSS

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
DR. SEUSS

We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had ...
DR. ALSAKER

Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose...
DR. HOOK

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't ...
DR. SEUSS

You have to be odd to be number one
DR. SEUSS

Everything stinks till it’s finished.
DR. SEUSS

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should b...
DR. SEUSS

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.
DR. SEUSS

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
DR. SEUSS

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play again...
DR. SEUSS

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.
DR. SEUSS

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
DR. SEUSS

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos ...
DR. JOHN

Adults are obsolete children.
DR. SEUSS

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone ...
DR. SEUSS

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
DR. SEUSS

I think that in the postmodern era in which we live we're influenced by attitudes for the past and the present. One of the things that I think Stoppard does well is that he pushes us toward this middle ground, allowing....a balance between emotion and reason.

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Dr. Mira Wiegmann

I think that in the postmodern era in which we live we're influenced by attitudes for the past and the present. One of the things that I think Stoppard does well is that he pushes us toward this middle ground, allowing....a balance between emotion and reason.

Dr. Mira Wiegmann

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