#plays

I re-traced your footsteps to that miserable little Tibetan monastery. It was hard to get the monks to talk, what with that vow of silence and all – and how do you threaten someone who regards death as a promotion? ↗

— Anne Flanagan

#plays #scripts #death

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#displays-of-kindness #food #food

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#plays #power #revolution #role #to love

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#books #caves #characters #i #i do

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children. ↗

— Columba Bush

#displays #father-in-law #i #i think #love

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time. ↗

— John Cale

#almost #attitude #decision #decisions #define

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#certain #experience #i #interest #kill

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