#wright

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Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.


Freeman Dyson


#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.


David Byrne


#frank #frank lloyd wright #functional #his #lloyd

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.


Peter Ustinov


#danger #doing #door #increasing #keyhole

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.


Francis Ford Coppola


#because #everything #falling #had #i

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience


Keith Richards


#music #songwrighting #experience

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.


Mark Helprin


#child #children #course #future #given

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.


Mindy Kaling


#almost #aware #christopher #college #comedian

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.


Jay Kay


#backing #benjamin #called #dynamite #flavour

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.


Twyla Tharp


#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.


Peter Ustinov


#asparagus #been #curry #deny #dining