![Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.](/assets/img/quote-photos/writing-a-play-is-like-smashing-that-glass-ashtray-filming-it-in-slow-motion.jpg)
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running suffering directors
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast. Carol Kane
running children home
I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them. Carol Vorderman
running real kids
The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.
running team cristiano-ronaldo
Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him. Carlos Queiroz
running responsibility running-away
I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities. Carlos Mesa
running smart home
I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't. Carlos Delgado
running home giving
Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it. Carlos Beltran
running games would-be
Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand. Carl Crawford
running long firsts
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. Carl Clinton Van Doren
writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
play years television
After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.
player world messi
Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human.
player thinking years
I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world. Carlos Moya
player want praying
I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.
player giving feel-good
We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play. Carlos Gonzalez
play car different
Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
player chess pawns
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit. Carlos Castaneda
play stage walks
When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over C. S. Lewis
play water inquiry
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.