"A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves."

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Source : "The Birthday Party is 50", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.

Timothy West

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“For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”
“The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.”

Source : Al Capp (1991). “My Well-balanced Life on a Wooden Leg: Memoirs”, Daniel & Daniel Pub
“You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
“To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.”
“Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.”
“I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).”

Source : "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.
“I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.”

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