"I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard."

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Zoe Leonard

#Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hard Quotes

“Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.”
“Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.”
“It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.”
“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”

Source : Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass
“Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. You fight dirty. You bet I do.”
“That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.”

Source : "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.
“So it sort of dawned on me that you have to build into your work the fact that it's going to be shown in different kinds of places and different kinds of light. And the fact that the surroundings and where you're going to be shown is always changing, so that should really not affect the meaning of the work. It should be part of what the work is about.”
“If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred.”

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