"I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays"

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Source : "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

Beth Henley

#Couple Quotes #Writing Quotes #Play Quotes

“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”
“Itâ€™s not rocket science. Itâ€™s social science â€“ the science of understanding peopleâ€™s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.”
“I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.”
“I take all the negatives and try to turn it into a positive.”
“Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.”
“Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.”
“Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.”

Source : Eleanor Clift (2009). “Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics”, p.228, Basic Books
“It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."”

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