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A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. “I didn’t. I have other business in town and I told my friend I would attend to the matter of his son, as he could not do so himself.” “Very kind of you.” “Yes. I have been looking forward to it for quite some time.” Daddy’s lemonade is almost gone, he sips it carefully, turning his eyes back to the water. “Looking forward to seeing the lad or to conducting your business?” Daddy is toying with him. “Both. You see, I had never actually met his son.” The glass rests against Daddy’s lips, unmoving. Mr. Geyer watches him closely. “But now I have, so I can get on with my,” he fixes his own gaze on the water, as though trying to see whatever it is that has transfixed my father, “business.


Gwenn Wright


#detective #geyer #gwenn-wright #historical-fiction #mystery

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.


Laura Linney


#am #aware #character #clues #everything

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.


John Lithgow


#become #broadway #comedy #long-running #musical

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.


Demetri Martin


#always #bill #cartoonist #comedians #comedic

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!


Anne Baxter


#frank lloyd wright #glamour #grandfather #his #lloyd

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.


Orlando Bloom


#drama school #had #historical #i #i think

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.


Freeman Dyson


#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.


David Byrne


#frank #frank lloyd wright #functional #his #lloyd

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.


Mark Helprin


#child #children #course #future #given

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.


Twyla Tharp


#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters






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