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Theresa Rebeck Quotes

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1958

Topics

Reach Thrive Audience Elusive Poetic

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Freedom People Tyranny Ignorant Lies

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

Best World Start Doing Attention

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.

Home City Start Thinking Easy Back

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

Angela Lansbury

Age Award Ridiculous Mean Contract

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Life Start Think Potential You Want

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Sinead O'Connor

Proud Trouble Anything Order Just

40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

Time Dance Start Think Retirement

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

Childhood Gun Loved Back Toys Gone

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.

Lion Creative Better Injuries Early

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

Relationship I Am Looking Single Am

Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

Clayton M. Christensen

Blame Problems Finding Labor Unions

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

Good Job You Done Director Half

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