"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."

-- Denis Johnson

#Play Quotes #Important Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.”

Source : Tom Bentley (2001). “It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government”, p.6, Demos
“I want to make sure everything has my 100%.”
“I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.”
“Videos are tricky because stuff sounds amazing on paper and it seems like it's going to be this mystical experience and you're going to look back and go, "Wow, that was magic." But more times than not, it doesn't end up that way, so I never know what I'm going to get.”
“Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.”

Source : "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.
“You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.”
“I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.”
“It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.”

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