Abaire Quotes

#1. 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

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

Tate Donovan

#3. 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

#4. Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might just ask me the same question.

Abdu'l- Baha

#5. 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

#6. You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey.

Abraham Hicks

#7. The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth travelling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The beauty you see me is reflection of you..

Jalaluddin Rumi

#11. 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

#12. With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#13. Ha! I knew you were into him! Oh my God! Hold my juice - I think I need to break out in a happy dance! Do you know how to do the running man? If so, can you teach me right now?

Elle Kennedy

#14. Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#15. 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

#16. I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

David Rees

#17. In this moment, he takes my heart as well as my body.

Alessandra Torre

#18. We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

William J. Clinton

#19. Only assholes write plays about Nazis.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#20. 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

#21. It's all my fault! Everything is my fault and no one knows it more than me. We're all in hell and I'm the one that put us here.

Katja Millay

#22. 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

#23. My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#24. So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...

David Lindsay-Abaire

#25. 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

#26. My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?

Ne-Yo

#27. 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

#28. I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#29. I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

Michelle Obama

#30. 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

#31. That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

Lee Greenwood