Romulus Linney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.
-- Romulus Linney

#Play #Together #Events
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.
-- Romulus Linney

#Sex #Play #Three
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
-- Romulus Linney

#Thinking #Scratches #Done
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do.
-- Romulus Linney

#Thinking #Years #Faithful

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No oneâ€¦gets left behind. An instrument of good.
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesnâ€™t work. You have to do it all together.
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Romulus Linney famous quotes

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