"For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play."

-- Sam Shepard

#Writing Quotes #Light Quotes #Play Quotes

“Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.”
“The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.”
“Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!”
“Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.50
“So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
“Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.”
“To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.”
“I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.”

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