People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is … - Peter Hedges

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Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

Peter Hedges

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

Eat, Mother, People, Pretty, Running

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GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

Writing, Character, Ideas, Argue, Begin, Good

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

Art, Cement, Giants, Green, Lying, Rainstorm

I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

Compassion, Fellow, Know, People, Understand, Views

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

Actor, Actors, Person, Trying, Years

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

Depressing, Eats, Nothing, Toast, Toasts