Quotes by Jerome Lawrence - Page 1

All experience helps when you write.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Helping
Writing
Helps
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Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Men
Apes
Inherit The Wind
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Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
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I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Enthusiasm
Passionate
Thinking
Writing
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The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Men
Fool
He Man
Figured
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Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Death
Poor
Starving
Most
Life Death Life Is A
Banquet
Life Is A
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When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Humor
Laughter
Thinking
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All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Inherit The Wind
Standing Still
Stills
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It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Good Morning
Morning
Good Day
Joy
Wake Up
Work Morning Wake Up
Wake
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Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Emptiness
Inherit The Wind
Overzealous
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Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Hell
Play
Stealing
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In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Instance
Intellectual
Musical
Opera
Play
Wind
Inherit
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The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Burning
Mind
Soul
Writing
Soul Your Mind
Soul Mind Your
Gut
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If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Cartoon
Musical
Play
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A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Men
Science
Air
Neurotic
Psychiatrist
Psychotic
Man
Who
Builds
Castle
Lives
Rent
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Men
Ideas
Snakes
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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Demand
Good Things
Peers
Television
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The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
War
Aftermath
Wind
Writing
Appalled
Inherit
Plays
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I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Law
Prison
Wicked
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Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Blessing
Bored
Boredom
Broadway
Competition
Play
Stage
Theater
Price
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Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Cynical
Hate
People
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Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."
Jerome Lawrence / Playwright
Men
Character
Distance
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