David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

• 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

  Writing, Dark, People

  "From Pulitzers to Tonys, David Lindsay-Abaire Turns Blue Collar Roots Into Art". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.

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

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Events, Unlikely

  David Lindsay-Abaire (2011). “Rabbit Hole (movie tie-in)”, p.143, Theatre Communications Group

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• I'm a playwright by trade, and in theater, writers have complete control over everything. Nobody can change a word without your permission. I've had a couple screenwriting experiences that weren't terrible, but they were typical, where executives came in and gave you sometimes good notes and sometimes horrible notes - but they wanted to change the movie that everybody had agreed to make. After a couple of times, it's like, "Why are we doing this?" The story is not going to turn out very good when 13 people are writing it together.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Couple, Writing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

  Humble, Thinking, People

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• 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

  People, Chance, Harder

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• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking

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

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Play, Outsiders, Clarity

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• Only assholes write plays about Nazis.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Writing, Play, Nazi

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• I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Musical, Want, Lyricists

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• 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

  Class, Identity, Knows

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• 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

  Class, Age, Identity

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Who I Am

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• 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

  Passion, Writing, Play

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• 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

  Writing, Rabbits, Looks

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

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Men, Totems, Bottom

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