At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation … - Marsha Norman

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It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

Marsha Norman

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

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There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

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We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it felt like to be alive in our time. That's what our job is as writers is to present that and create it. Our job as writers isn't to make as much money as we can. Our job is to create a record of this time. That's why if you leave out women and the stories of women, we failed at our mission. All of us. Men and women.

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We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.

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on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

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