“I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.” ThinkingKnowsEndsDreamProgramCrowdsLoudSkatingSkatesSkater Author:Sarah Hughes
“I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingPlayChildhoodWoundsHorribleGreekAssumptionOperaOld FashionedCatharsis Author:Sarah Ruhl
“I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.” WritingI CanWarPlayMomentsStoriesWantedRememberFireCrossesDemocraticCaughtEndlessObsessedRepublicCongoEndless WarDemocratic Republic Author:Lynn Nottage
“I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.” AreasWestWesternEasternColoradoNebraskaWyoming Author:Charles Frazier
“Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.” HatePassionHellI HateHolesPlaywright Author:Katori Hall
“Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.” NeedsDoneActorsDirectorsDesignerPlaywrightWork DoneGregarious Author:Katori Hall
“I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.” WorldLittlesWholeGood ThingsChaosWhole World Author:Septima Poinsette Clark
“I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.” ArtPlaySchoolEarsPianoArt School Author:John Mayall