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«I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.»
Author: Alan Bennett
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
blueprint, blueprints, playwright, playwrights, programmed
«This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.»
Author: Richard Eder
| About:
Comedy
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, lamp, playwright, playwrights, sentimental, shades, soviet
«The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.»
Author: Robert Anderson
| About:
Actors and acting,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
concerns, conviction, mission, missions, Mission of, of course, Passion play, playwright, playwrights, The Mission, the play
«A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
journalist, litmus, No Wave, playwright, playwrights, psychic, wave
«Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.»
«A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.»
Author: Wilson Mizner
| Keywords:
drama, drama critic, informing, playwright, playwrights, surprises
«A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.»
«The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.»
«If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Alps, crossing, Crossing the, elephants, Hannibal, nineteen, playwright, playwrights, see eye to eye, snowstorm, snowstorms, strabismus, the Alps
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