"Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written."

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Source : Arthur Laurents (2005). “Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents”, Backstage Books

Arthur Laurents

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“I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.”
“Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they are being used. Allow them to discover you.”
“I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.”
“Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.”
“After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.”
“What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.”

Source : Richard Watson Gilder (2013). “The Celestial Passion”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc
“Even very progressive, informed people still get tongue-tied responding to the question, can organic and sustainably raised food still feed the world? A corollary to that question, and one we certainly hear a lot these days, is that genetically modified foods are better for the environment because they use fewer chemicals, which has been thoroughly debunked.”

Source : "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview With Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.
“The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.”

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