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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

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Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

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Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

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Success is always something that you have to recover from.

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People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

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I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

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After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'

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There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.

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If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: September 21st, 1947

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