Marsha Norman Quotes - Page 2

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• At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

  Marsha Norman

  Heart, Thoughtful, Play

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• 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.

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  Song, Heart, People

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• When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

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  Fighting, Long, Enough

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• What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

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  Heaven, Body, Embarrassing

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• 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.

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  Song, Love You, Unique

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• I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

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  Writing, Piano, Grew Up

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• When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

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  Mother, Night, Long

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• Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

  Marsha Norman

  Suicide, Jesus, Ask Me

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.17, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Tired, Thinking

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.22, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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