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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 is destructive, while…

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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
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…
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
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.…
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.…
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director…
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working…
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own…
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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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C.S. Lewis
A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The… — Hal Borland
We possess art lest we perish of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’ — Mark Victor Hansen
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Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an… — Jack White
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. — Paul Valery
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It… — Terrence McNally
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — James A. Baldwin
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from… — Clive Barker
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life,… — Neil MacGregor

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