Ellen McLaughlin quotes
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“I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre.”
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“The sensation of flying is incredible, and its such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.”
-- Ellen McLaughlin -
“In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.”
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“I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.”
-- Ellen McLaughlin -
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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