"Each play I write has its own unique origin story."

-- Lynn Nottage

#Writing Quotes #Unique Quotes #Play Quotes

“I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.”

Source : "Blow-Up Brian De Palma & Taryn Simon in conversation". www.artforum.com. 2012.
“It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.”

Source : Reginald Rose (1983). “Twelve angry men: a play in three acts”, Rourke Publishing
“Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.”
“According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.”

Source : Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”
“I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.”
“Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism”
“There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.”
“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #5: Gregor and the Code of Claw”, p.411, Scholastic Inc.

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