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Patrick Marber Quotes

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

Patrick Marber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: September 19, 1964

Topics

Power Rest Plan You Meeting Play

I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called 'Centuria,' which contains 100 stories, each of them about a page long. They're somewhat surreal and extremely dense, at once fierce and purifying, the equivalent of a shot of grappa. I find it helpful to read one before sitting down to write.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Work Fierce Long Find Down Sitting

There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all times that you're a potential victim. What's more terrifying is that it's not necessarily preventative.

Jessica Valenti

Women Space World Prison Potential

I'm the all-around threat. I've got the look; I think I've got the whole package.

Rose Namajunas

Think Look Got Whole Threat Package

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.

Michael Mina

Food Burger You Comfort Know Call

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

Mitch Daniels

Life Government Believe Way Benefit

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Lou Brock

Greater Message Penalty Sent

Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.

Claire Messud

Talent Watch Like Writer Other

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

Brennan Manning

God You Nobody Because Should Loves

If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.

Asif Ali Zardari

History War World Remember You Go

I know people are fickle.

William Hague

People Know Fickle

Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.

Penn Jillette

Leader Great Fire People Up Get

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Shelley Berman

Humor I Am Writing Professional Am