I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of creativity and perseverance against societal expectations.
Wendy Wasserstein's quote reflects a determination to maintain one's imagination and creativity in the face of societal pressures and expectations. It highlights the struggle between individual aspirations and the norms imposed by others, suggesting that holding onto one's unique vision can lead to incredible outcomes over time, particularly by the age of thirty, which symbolizes a pivotal point in life and career development.
In practice
During a motivational speech about following your dreams, this quote can inspire audiences to stay true to their creative visions.
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.
Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
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