David Lindsay-Abaire quote: "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."

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I ...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help.
Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You w...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictu...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes ...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an intere...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make y...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my iden...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

The best moment for work or study never arrives; one should therefore work whenever one can.
DAVID LINDSAY

I don't know, and I can't answer you tonight.
DAVID LINDSAY

You can't call 43 days a dire emergency,
DAVID LINDSAY

We opened every potential flood gate we could, ... We were at least expecting a lot of rain.
DAVID LINDSAY

Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases.
DAVID LINDSAY

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.
DAVID LINDSAY

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member cl...
TED LINDSAY

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering t...
TED LINDSAY

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the playe...
TED LINDSAY

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
TED LINDSAY

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
TED LINDSAY

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Win...
TED LINDSAY

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
TED LINDSAY

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
TED LINDSAY

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
TED LINDSAY

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
TED LINDSAY

I love people and I love to be around people.
TED LINDSAY

I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
TED LINDSAY

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
TED LINDSAY

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Sta...
TED LINDSAY

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showe...
TED LINDSAY

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey...
TED LINDSAY

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wa...
TED LINDSAY

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
TED LINDSAY

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
VACHEL LINDSAY

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the...
VACHEL LINDSAY

'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but f...
KARA LINDSAY

I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stup...
KARA LINDSAY

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle ...
KARA LINDSAY

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainab...
KARA LINDSAY

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway a...
KARA LINDSAY

I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and ch...
KARA LINDSAY

I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressur...
KARA LINDSAY

I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite...
KARA LINDSAY

Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to ...
KARA LINDSAY

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, a...
LINDSAY PEARCE

How can you not like Britney Spears?
LINDSAY LOHAN

My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Ever...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other w...
JEFF LINDSAY

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a ver...
JEFF LINDSAY

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can ...
ARTO LINDSAY

I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th...
JEFF LINDSAY

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
VACHEL LINDSAY

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can s...
BRYAN LINDSAY

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unl...
VACHEL LINDSAY

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
LINDSAY ANDERSON

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
BEN LINDSAY

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
VACHEL LINDSAY

I think Christina Aguilera is great; I would love to work with her.
LINDSAY LOHAN

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...
NORMAN LINDSAY

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is w...
LINDSAY FOX

I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.
LINDSAY LOHAN

I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perf...
KARA LINDSAY

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at ...
LINDSAY FOX

I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become ava...
KARA LINDSAY

But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Re...
TED LINDSAY

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren...
LINDSAY WAGNER

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't bu...
LINDSAY FOX

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 2...
LINDSAY WAGNER

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.
LINDSAY LOHAN

You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of wh...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.
LINDSAY LOHAN

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome i...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off al...
LINDSAY LOHAN

My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put mysel...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party ...
LINDSAY LOHAN

Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.
LINDSAY LOHAN

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?
LINDSAY LOHAN

It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake.
LINDSAY LOHAN

I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.
LINDSAY LOHAN

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn ...
LINDSAY LOHAN

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
LINDSAY LOHAN

I just love fashion. I think it just expresses who you are so much.
LINDSAY LOHAN

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.
LINDSAY LOHAN

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts m...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I love my red hair. It makes me spunkier.
LINDSAY LOHAN

Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.
LINDSAY LOHAN

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.
LINDSAY LOHAN

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yoursel...
LINDSAY WAGNER

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good ...
LINDSAY LOHAN

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic huma...
JEFF LINDSAY

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I h...
JEFF LINDSAY

Is that why you're crying?"
(...) "It's just hormones," she said. "I didn't want anyone to see....
JEFF LINDSAY

¿Acaso no estábamos todos locos cuando dormíamos? ¿Qué era el sueño, al fin y al cabo, sino el...
JEFF LINDSAY

Pero, por triste que sea, la vida no siempre imita al arte. -Dexter
JEFF LINDSAY

That left either magical powers or coincidence, and although I have nothing at all against Harry Pot...
JEFF LINDSAY

Cualquiera puede ser encantador si no le importa mentir y decir todas las cosas estúpidas, obvias y...
JEFF LINDSAY

She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine."
I looked over at my answerin...
JEFF LINDSAY

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wai...
JEFF LINDSAY

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.
JEFF LINDSAY

After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the c...
JEFF LINDSAY

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint d...
JEFF LINDSAY

It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep...
JEFF LINDSAY

It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an eve...
JEFF LINDSAY

Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion ...
JEFF LINDSAY

the faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock...
JEFF LINDSAY

…a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark...
JEFF LINDSAY

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultiva...
JEFF LINDSAY

What a terrible thing life can be.
JEFF LINDSAY

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
JEFF LINDSAY

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that...
JEFF LINDSAY

What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the ...
JEFF LINDSAY

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do th...
JEFF LINDSAY

It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky a...
JEFF LINDSAY

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.
JEFF LINDSAY

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it ...
JEFF LINDSAY

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.
JEFF LINDSAY

It's an odd term, girlfriend, particuarly for grown persons. And in practice an even odder concept. ...
JEFF LINDSAY

It’s always me, isn’t it? I’m not really a very nice person, but for some reason it’s always...
JEFF LINDSAY

We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait......
JEFF LINDSAY

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.
JEFF LINDSAY

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, an...
JEFF LINDSAY

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a diff...
JEFF LINDSAY

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each ot...
JEFF LINDSAY

you can’t use logic on human behavior.
JEFF LINDSAY

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?
JEFF LINDSAY

What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced o...
JEFF LINDSAY

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody els...
JEFF LINDSAY

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction b...
JEFF LINDSAY

You're driving me NORMAL!
JEFF LINDSAY

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish a...
JOHN LINDSAY

Smart girl 101: Never let a stranger follow you to your hotel room.
LINDSAY CHAMBERLIN

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I t...
JEFF LINDSAY

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they'r...
JEFF LINDSAY

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren'...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
JEFF LINDSAY

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
JEFF LINDSAY

She really did like me, the idiot.
JEFF LINDSAY

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical con...
ARTO LINDSAY

Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.
ARTO LINDSAY

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
ARTO LINDSAY

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
ARTO LINDSAY

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
ARTO LINDSAY

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different b...
ARTO LINDSAY

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciousl...
ARTO LINDSAY

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in m...
ARTO LINDSAY

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
ARTO LINDSAY

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years...
ARTO LINDSAY

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?
JEFF LINDSAY

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they'...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I...
LINDSAY LOHAN

My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every sin...
JEFF LINDSAY

I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot....
LINDSAY LOHAN

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I loved Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' I just wanted to be her. I'm a brunette, so I t...
KARA LINDSAY

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into p...
LINDSAY DAVENPORT

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
LINDSAY LOHAN

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish ...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardco...
JEFF LINDSAY

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing ...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being playe...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

We don't have any choice. We have to play hard defensively or we wouldn't be able to stay in games.
BOB LINDSAY

I told the team this is probably as good a road win as we've had. We came out of the gates pretty qu...
BOB LINDSAY

We really found a way to win, but we certainly didn't look well doing it.
BOB LINDSAY

We couldn't make any shots. You have to give credit to their defense for our shooting percentages.
BOB LINDSAY

She's certainly from an offensive standpoint maybe as good as any player we've ever had here.
BOB LINDSAY

We went into a different set. We tried to move Lindsay (Shearer) around a little bit, and I think sh...
BOB LINDSAY

I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let'...
JEFF LINDSAY

It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.
JEFF LINDSAY

It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone...
JEFF LINDSAY

I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
JEFF LINDSAY

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or pe...
JEFF LINDSAY

Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new pe...
LINDSAY PRICE

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up...
LINDSAY FOX

I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything.
LINDSAY ANDERSON

Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up.
LINDSAY ANDERSON

I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his pla...
LINDSAY ANDERSON

I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist n...
LINDSAY ANDERSON

Am I good? I think so.
LINDSAY ANDERSON

Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for m...
LINDSAY ALCOCK

When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow.
LINDSAY ALCOCK

Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program.
LINDSAY ALCOCK

I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach...
LINDSAY ALCOCK

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature t...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible ...
LINDSAY LOHAN

I am looking forward to getting healthy and defending my year-end No.1 ranking at the WTA Championsh...
LINDSAY DAVENPORT

I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extrover...
LINDSAY WAGNER

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because t...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

She mixes up the ball so much you never really get any rhythm, and finally I got a little more consi...
LINDSAY DAVENPORT

My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie
LINDSAY LOHAN

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
JEFF LINDSAY

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.

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David Lindsay-Abaire

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

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