Quotes by Ann-Marie Macdonald - Page 1

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Deceit
Lying
Sacrifice
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Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Depression
Grief
Panic
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You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Work People Person
By The People
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The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Mere
Stealing
Thieves
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Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Memories
Play
Stories
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They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Forget
Knees
World
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Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Left
Tasks
Writing
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Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Believe
Fountain
No Hope
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The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Failing
Judging
World
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I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Accidentally
Novelist
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'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Fall
Expressed
Secrets
Truths
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There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Stories
Understanding
Way
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In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Creating
Fall
Secret
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I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Air Force
Carried
Hop
Medium
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In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Readers
Secrets
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Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Going For It
Needs
Pieces
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Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Believe
People
Thinking
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It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Fire
Funeral
Views
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I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Moved
Stories
Performance
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Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.
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Brother
Father
Talking
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You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Past
Powerful
Thinking
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Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Charlotte
Influential
Interrogation
Jane
Tunes
Formative
Loony
Pin
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Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Unconscious
Collective
Wanting
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Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Kings
Fall
Horse
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She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Men
Rain
Song
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Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.
Ann-Marie Macdonald / Playwright
Journey
Book
Eye
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