Christopher Durang Quotes

#1. On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

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#2. I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can sometimes go off on a wrong tangent, and with luck then rewrite it in a better direction. But it means I sometimes surprise myself as I'm going along.

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#3. Laughter can bring a new perspective.

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#4. I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

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#5. Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have any legitimate base and will be at least partially false. Plus, eventually you will go crazy.

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#6. I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

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#7. Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

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#8. So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

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#9. Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

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#10. My parents didn't really know one another.

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#11. I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.

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#12. My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

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#13. I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

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#14. Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.

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#15. Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

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#16. I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

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#17. When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

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#18. It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, . That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.

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#19. My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

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