Marsha Norman Quotes

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Good
  • Model
  • Same

• I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Morning

• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • After

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Yes

• The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Business
  • Way
  • Write

• Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Good
  • May
  • Success

• Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Forever

• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon,And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit,And Custard gobbled him, every bit.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Pirate

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • She
  • House
  • Dark

• Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Heaven

• There's no guarantee, and there's no proper path to follow that will directly lead you to where you want to go, but stick with it. If you know in your bones that this is what you were put on this earth to do, and the world would be a darker place without you pursuing your dreams, then keep at it.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • World
  • Earth
  • Path

• My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

  

  Christian Kane

• It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Movie

• In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

  

  John Rawls
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Achievement

• When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

  

  Bono U2
  • Jesus
  • Choice
  • Good Teacher

• There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Simple

• Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Communities
  • Music Industry
  • Revolutionize

• Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics

• Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

  

  Marsha Norman