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Marsha Norman Quotes

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Marsha Norman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 21, 1947

Topics

Women Hope Children World Violence

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

Jo Brand

Great Thought Remember Wood She

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

Andie MacDowell

You Know Actor Next Going Come

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

John Larroquette

Love I Am Me Strangers Find Way

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

John W. Gardner

Motivational Happiness Power True

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

Ron Howard

Great Experience Ideas You Something

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

Ruben Studdard

People Me Surprise American Person

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

Judith Leiber

I Am People Customer You Want Kind

Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was 15, and he came back with his GB kit. I thought, 'Wow, I want a part of that.' Sportsmen can seem distant, like superheroes. Seeing my brother achieve that made me think I could, too.

Jonathan Brownlee

Goals Great Brother Me Think Feel

The level here in England is much higher than in France.

Dimitri Payet

Level Here France Than Much Higher

Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

Derek Cianfrance

Pain World Feel Look Through Things

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Diablo Cody

Alone Being Alone Diet Trying Bed

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

Ariel Gore

Positive Family Science Tree Happy