Plays Quotes

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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning… — Susan Griffin
My fault now is making my plays too short. — Beth Henley
Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make… — Beth Henley
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. — Beth Henley
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays — Beth Henley
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players,… — Bill Frisell
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity. — David Lindsay-Abaire
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. — Alan Bennett
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of… — Edward Bond
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. — Edward Bond
The one overall structure in my plays is language — Edward Bond
I don't like what the radio plays for the most part. — Kristin Hersh
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or… — Vladimir Horowitz
Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent… — Vitali Klitschko
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters… — Nate Silver
Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is. — Deion Sanders
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays… — John Crowe Ransom
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role. — Helio Gracie

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