"There are things that music can do that……" — Marsha Norman
"There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it."
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19 Quotes by Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman has 19 quotes on this site.
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We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy.…
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Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
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I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.
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Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
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The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of…
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I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but…
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Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and…
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No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me…
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Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family,…
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Success is always something that you have to recover from.
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I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
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