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"My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi."
Christmas
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
Being
"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."
Play
"I love writing for the screen."
Love
"Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny."
Funny
"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
Acting
"I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money."
Money
"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
Mother
"My fault now is making my plays too short."
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"Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much."
Love
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