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Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.

Kenneth Lonergan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: October 16, 1962

Topics

Live People Always Somewhere Affect

My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control.

Work Love Control Design More First

If anything, the impact of digital technology is creating bigger brands and bigger superstars.

Technology Impact Creating Digital

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

Michael Douglas

Father Cool Wish Pictures Shy Being

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Hatred Homophobic Bigot Pandering

I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.

Comedy Clever More Write Classic

Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.

Alone Children Learn Friends Long

It's really difficult to maintain a credible career as you jump from age group to age group and suddenly you're not the flavor of the month anymore; you're not in demand.

Age You Career Jump Group Difficult

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

Work Marriage Children People Speak

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Work Love God Age Hope Old Age

I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.

God Looking Guilt Nothing Way Shame

The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.

Career First Bars Entire Career

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

Wisdom Bridge Voice Award Year Look

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