Top 44 Richard LaGravenese Quotes
#1. Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
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#3. There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.
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#4. We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship.
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#6. A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
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#8. Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.
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#9. In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.
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#10. The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.
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#11. Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.
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#12. You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film ... at least in Hollywood studio films.
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#13. How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.
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#15. I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
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#18. Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil 'Love' show.
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#19. You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.
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#20. I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
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#21. I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!
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#22. The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.
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#24. I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.
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#27. Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.
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#28. Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
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#30. I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.
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#31. I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
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#33. I realized love won't obey our expectations, it's mystery is pure and absolute.
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#35. Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.
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#36. My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
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#37. 'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.
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#38. I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.
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#39. I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.
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#40. Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
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#41. When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
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#43. Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
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