"Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word.……" — Meredith Willson
"Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong."
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Meredith Willson
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11 Quotes by Meredith Willson
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Where is the good in goodbye?
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From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first…
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again.…
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Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing…
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You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know…
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Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that…
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Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make…
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There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until…
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