"Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are."

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Source : Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Marsha Norman

#Family Quotes #Mean Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.”

Source : "Martha Wainwright Makes a Home". Interview with Erin Brady, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2012.
“Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.”
“That's actually kind of scary. Sex with a mime. Do I have to pay extra to make sure you don't do the trapped-in-a-box thing while we're doing it?”
“I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.”
“I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.”
“This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have a plan. But the stupid boy goes back, makes the rest of the story postscript and aftermath. He shouldnâ€™t have gone back. And this is the second lesson I took from the story: when someone is trying to ditch you, kill you, never go back.”
“Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.”

Source : "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)
“We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.”

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