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If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

William Monahan

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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.
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I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.
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I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
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The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.
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Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
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Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.
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