"I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is my right to say that its female characters be portrayed by women. The concept of a play set in a beauty parlor where men portray women is a terrific idea. If that is someone's artistic expression, I encourage them to write their own play as soon as possible."

-- Robert Harling

#Believe Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.”
“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Source : David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press
“I believe you can speak things into existence.”
“What makes LSU is the environment and the fans and those guys wearing the jerseys. They're really good players.”
“As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does”
“The professor leaned forward. â€œBut thereâ€™s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.â€ Her lovely face turned fierce. â€œThink about it Cath. Thatâ€™s what makes a godâ€”or a mother. Thereâ€™s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.”
“Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual.”

Source : Patrice Pavis, Christine Shantz (1998). “Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis”, p.43, University of Toronto Press
“Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.”

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