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Terrence McNally has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
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I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's…
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I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
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Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster.…
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Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.…
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director…
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I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
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I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
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I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working…
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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own…
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Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It…
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Follow your heart because it always knows.
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I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.
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The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things…
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A good man always knows his limitations.
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I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's…
— Terrence McNally
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Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually…
— Carl Jung
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In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile,…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot…
— A. A. Gill
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The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.
— Timothy Morton
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God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in…
— Jerry Bridges
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Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.
— Ernest Holmes
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When it comes to forks in the road, your heart always knows the answer, not your mind.
— Marie Forleo
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