". . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have to let them stumble, fall into walls and be mute, let them drift and be lost. If you hold the reins too tight, they won't spring to life."

-- Tina Howe

#Wall Quotes #Spring Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.428, Read Books Ltd
“I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I donâ€™t know what to feed it.”
“What if the house catches fire?â€ â€œRoast marshmallows. And if it floods, youâ€™ll go down with the ship. If thereâ€™s a tornado, Iâ€™ll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?”
“The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.”
“God holds with the strong.”
“A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!”
“You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.”
“I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.”

Source : Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.34, Grove Press

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