"Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're……" — David Ives
"Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships."
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13 Quotes by David Ives
David Ives has 13 quotes on this site.
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Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but…
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Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature…
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I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people…
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Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not…
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All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
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I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to…
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I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
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I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
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Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is…
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form…
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With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of…
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More Existential Quotes
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one of 227 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
— Norman Mailer
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And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they…
— Rajneesh
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I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a…
— Rajneesh
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Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential…
— Charlie Pierce
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When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to…
— Michael Kirby
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Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust,…
— Rajneesh
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For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass…
— Rajneesh
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When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of…
— Barack Obama
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The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We…
— David Cronenberg
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I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist…
— Norman Mailer
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