"People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through."

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Source : "Interview with Playwright, Donald Margulies". Interview with Ted Sod, www.broadwayworld.com. January 13, 2014.

Donald Margulies

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Love is a continual interrogation. I donâ€™t know of a better definition of love.”
“I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.”
“There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists take great pains to make sure that ideology and personal bias and wishful thinking do not contaminate the collection and analysis and evidence.”
“It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.19, Courier Corporation
“You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.”
“What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.”

Source : Herbert M. Shelton (1996). “Hygienic Review”, p.84, Health Research Books
“Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.”
“The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being...”

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