Abaire Quotes & Sayings

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now. — David Lindsay-Abaire

We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is. — David Lindsay-Abaire

When this is over," she said, tucking the watch into a fold of her cloak. "I want to be the one to slit his throat. — V.E Schwab

Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology. — Penny Marshall

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him. — Tate Donovan

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole. — David Lindsay-Abaire

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that. — David Lindsay-Abaire

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t. — Billy Corgan

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity. — David Lindsay-Abaire

Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan. — Irvine Welsh

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me. — David Lindsay-Abaire

Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies. — Calvin Coolidge

I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty. — Confucius

If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka... — Les Edgerton

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. — Bob Schieffer

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love? — Ellen McLaughlin

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity. — David Lindsay-Abaire

why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home, the deep and arbitrary place that happened to be yours. — Lorrie Moore

Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I am a whore," she said. "And in addition to that, I am not a nice woman. But despite these facts, my word is gold. — Elizabeth Hoyt

I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ... — David Lindsay-Abaire

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it. — David Lindsay-Abaire

Only assholes write plays about Nazis. — David Lindsay-Abaire

Life would continue, with joys and sorrows, triumphs and tragedies rising and falling like the waves of the sea. It was up to him to respond wisely, enjoy simple pleasures unshaken by the inevitable endless turmoil of the world. — Devdutt Pattanaik

I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly. — David Lindsay-Abaire

I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays. — David Lindsay-Abaire

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. — Daniel J. Boorstin