Plays Quotes

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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and… — Mark Rylance
I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a… — Ray Walston
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. — Samuel Richardson
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the… — Adam Rickitt
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for… — Ambrose Bierce
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which… — Skitch Henderson
One man in his time plays many parts. — William Shakespeare
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually… — George Shearing
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and… — A. E. Housman
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. — Robert MacNeil
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say,… — Wendy Wasserstein
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the… — A. R. Gurney
We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard… — Steven Dietz
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film… — Arthur Miller
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing… — John Patrick Shanley
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that… — Terrence McNally
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare
Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then… — David Henry Hwang
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame. — Lisa Loomer
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very… — Suzan-Lori Parks

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