Paula Vogel Quotes

#1. I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

Cherry Jones

#2. Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

Paula Vogel

#3. Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

Paula Vogel

#4. Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#5. This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and time ... I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.

Paula Vogel

#6. We need to be on guard against greed ... above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

Billy Graham

#7. Authority - when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats - makes people shut down & productivity ceases.

John Stoker

#8. Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. It's pretty hard not to like her," he says. "Even when
you know you shouldn't.

Joe Meno

#10. Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Paula Vogel

#11. In art as in life, some things need no translation.

Paula Vogel

#12. Nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.

Fannie Flagg