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9 quotes by Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1938) is an American playwright. He has received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. His other accolades include an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, three Hull-Warriner Awards, and a...
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Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are... →

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If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite... →

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I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

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I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

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I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

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With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

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'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very... →

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I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on... →

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