Top 38 David Lindsay-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. Recent gains in property prices suggest that Sydney's price-to-income ratio is closer to the 10x-income range. Unless
Lindsay David
#4. A ghost sighting is usually nothing more than your brain trying to put a familiar face on something that does not have a face at all.
David Wong
#6. Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.
Suzanne Collins
#7. He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.
Marie Brennan
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.
Cathy Freeman
#12. 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
#13. He'd come back to her, it was true. He was the one to walk out of the woods and onto the beach, to cross the space between them. But he wasn't the only one. It was there in her eyes: she was coming back to him too.
Jennifer E. Smith
#14. I write when I feel like writing. I write about anything that interests me that moment.
Divya Chawla
#15. 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
#16. Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.
David Letterman
#17. Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.
Jack Kornfield
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.
David Bowie
#21. I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what "help" would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself for how humbled I'd feel, or how hard it would be to find my footing when witnessing a cycle of poverty that seemed to defy any sort of help.
Dee Williams
#22. The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
Martin Heidegger
#23. 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
#25. Our consciences take NO notice of pain inflicted upon others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to US. In ALL cases without exception we are absolutely indifferent to another person's pain until his sufferings make us uncomfortable.
Mark Twain
#26. One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.
Martin Fowler
#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. 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
#30. RODERIGO What a full fortune does the thick lips owe, If he can carry't thus!
William Shakespeare
#32. 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
#34. I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.
David Bowie
#35. When we walk upon Mother Earth,
we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations
are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
we never forget them.
Oren Lyons
#36. 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
#37. Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
Albert Einstein
#38. You may be sure that a question which requires music for an answer can't be put into words.
David Lindsay
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