#plays

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#china #competitiveness #costs #education #factors

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school. ↗

— Matt Damon

#doing #drama #good #good drama #had

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#down #edit #ever #i #idea

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#becomes #comic #comic relief #dark #funny

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. ↗

— Rita Dove

#alive #come #extremely #had #i

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#had #i #plays #poems #started

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#find #i #miracle #often #plays

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #i think #incredibly #like #marriage

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#get #hard #i #i write #love