"I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage."

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Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

Neil Simon

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.”
“My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.”
“I think, therefore I am confused.”
“Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.”
“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.”

Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 08, 2011
“Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.”
“Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.”
“It is rarely comfortable to talk about climate change. Bringing something difficult up, it feels like somehow by mentioning this I'm kind of causing it, I'm hurting these people. But you're not hurting these people; climate change is hurting these people. You're telling them they're being hurt.”

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