"I may think I have inalienable rights to……" — Terrence McNally
"I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing."
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11 Quotes by Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally has 11 quotes on this site.
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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
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I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,'…
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I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn…
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Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed…
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Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim…
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a…
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I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the…
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I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different…
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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start…
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Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly…
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More Alive Quotes
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
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