#plays

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#breaking #down #everything #family #god

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#first #important #modern #more #mostly

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#awhile #because #craft #different #different kind

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all. ↗

— B. B. King

#doctor #doctors #feet #george #guitar

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#family #father #golf #modern #particularly

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

#another #assumes #authors #begin #end

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#combating #crucial #crucial role #defense #each

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#books #endemic #grow #i #i think

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ages #being #entrances #exits #his

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. ↗

— George Shearing

#few #first #i #movement #mozart