"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."

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"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."

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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"

George Carlin, American Comedian

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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it."

Alexander O'Neal, American Musician

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary."

Chris Bailey, Australian Musician

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"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."

Age

"I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that."

Music

"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."

Civilization

"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."

Actor

"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."

Writing

"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."

Trying

"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."

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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

"My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

"I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary."

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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."

"It's true, I don't like the real world."

"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."

"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."

"I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that."

"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."

"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."

"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."

"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."

"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."