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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Wendy Wasserstein
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Wendy Wasserstein
Age: 55 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 18
Died: 2006
Died: January 30
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