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In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.
Terrence McNally
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Terrence McNally
Age: 81 †
Born: 1938
Born: November 3
Died: 2020
Died: March 24
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St. Petersburg
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More quotes by Terrence McNally
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.
Terrence McNally
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
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I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
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I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.
Terrence McNally
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.
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