Lanford Wilson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.
-- Lanford Wilson

#Christian #Struggle #Commitment
If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.
-- Lanford Wilson

#Dream #Giving Up
Nobody's safe around a writer.
-- Lanford Wilson

#Safe
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
-- Lanford Wilson

#Atoms #Bombs #Firsts
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
-- Lanford Wilson

#September 11 #Events #September
But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
-- Lanford Wilson

#Blow #Cities #Lasts
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.
-- Lanford Wilson

#Hate #Drama #Writing
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.
-- Lanford Wilson

#Writing #Color #People

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.
Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.
The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel's prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.

Lanford Wilson famous quotes

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