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Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Dreams are illustrations ... from
If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
Marsha Norman Quotes: If someone wants to say
There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.
Marsha Norman Quotes: There is no point in
Mama: ... you can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up.
Jessie: I'm NOT giving up. This IS the other thing I'm trying. And I'm sure there are some other things that might work, but MIGHT work isn't good enough any more. I need something that WILL work. THIS will work. That's why I picked it.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Mama: ... you can keep
I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.
Marsha Norman Quotes: I'm who I was waiting
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
Marsha Norman Quotes: If I had not had
What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'
Marsha Norman Quotes: What I hope to do
I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did.
Marsha Norman Quotes: I see it on his
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.
Marsha Norman Quotes: We have to hear the
What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?
Marsha Norman Quotes: What's so good about a
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Marsha Norman Quotes: People do think that if
On the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.
Marsha Norman Quotes: On the whole the American
It was his idea to go horseback riding that day. It was his idea I could do anything if I just made up my mind to. I fell off the horse because I didn't know how to hold on. Cecil left for pretty much the same reason.
Marsha Norman Quotes: It was his idea to
I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
Marsha Norman Quotes: I grew up at the
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 Quotes: Think of a musical as
I am what became of your child. I found an old baby picture of me. And it was somebody else, not me. It was somebody pink and fat who never heard of sick or lonely, somebody who cried and got fed,, and reached up and got held and kicked but didn't hurt anybody, and slept whenever she wanted to, just by closing her eyes. Somebody who mainly just laid there and laughed at the colors waving around over her head and chewed on a polka-dot whale and woke up knowing some new trick nearly every day and rolled over and drooled on the sheet and felt your hand pulling my quilt back up over me. That's who I started out and this is who is left. That's what this is about. It's somebody I lost, all right, it's my own self. Who I never was. Or who I tried to be and never got there. Somebody I waited for who never came. And never will. So, see, it doesn't much matter what else happens in the world or in this house, even. I'm what was worth waiting for and I didn't make it. Me...who might have made a difference to me...I'm not going to show up, so there's no reason to stay, except to keep you company, and that's...not reason enough because I'm not...very good company. Am I.
Marsha Norman Quotes: I am what became of
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
Marsha Norman Quotes: The theater is a communal
Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Why do you have to
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
Marsha Norman Quotes: People listen to music with
I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.
Marsha Norman Quotes: I only told you about
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.
Marsha Norman Quotes: There are days when I
I loved that bridge he built over the creek in the back of the house. [ ... ] Or that baby bed he built for Ricky. I told him he didn't have to spend so much time on it, but he said it had to last, and the thing ended up weighing two hundred pounds and I couldn't move it. I said, 'How long does a baby bed have to last, anyway?' But maybe he thought if it was strong enough, it might keep Ricky a baby.
Marsha Norman Quotes: I loved that bridge he
I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.
Marsha Norman Quotes: I'm just not having a
Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Family is just accident, Jessie.
Success is always something that you have to recover from.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Success is always something that
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.
Marsha Norman Quotes: We are not afraid to
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Music expresses longing and love
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Knowing is the most profound
Write about the thing that frightens you most.
Marsha Norman Quotes: Write about the thing that
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.'
Marsha Norman Quotes: After I won the Pulitzer,
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.
Marsha Norman Quotes: There are things that music
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