"I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better."

-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Play Quotes

“Some people find it hard to come to terms with the fact that everyone is different”
“The best teacher that I ever had, the best acting coach that I ever had wasn't the person I was trying to see in the studio, he had too long of a waiting list so I went to the fallback guy. But the best was the one that I heard when I was a kid, the one whose voice speaks to you, that you understand. It's communication. If you have that, than anything is possible.”
“Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.”
“Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.”

Source : George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
“It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.”

Source : Rumer Godden (2015). “The Dolls' House”, p.9, Pan Macmillan
“I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.”
“Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.”

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