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I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention. Martin McDonagh

Success Time Me You People Queen First Beauty Think Visible Broadway Writer Never Attention First Place Because Coming Were Fame Up After Place Flee Really Prepared Level

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude. Martin McDonagh

Attitude Try First Everything Bit Though Per About Seem Write Never Like Always May Story Place Last

I realize that I am never going to grow up. Martin McDonagh

Never Am Up Going Realize Grow Grow Up

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work. Martin McDonagh

Work Hope All My Work Kind Some Morality

My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to. Martin McDonagh

Trick Never Islands Been Irish Usual Things Set Plays

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that. Martin McDonagh

Humanity Bit More Empathy Learned Fake Least

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good. Martin McDonagh

Work Good Me Honesty Writing Sometimes Thought Made Arrogant Bad About Talking Always Sound Been Very Might Good And Bad Honest

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. Maxwell Anderson

Liberty Will Easy Nobody Look Get Dies

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. Maxwell Anderson

God Men He Were Gods Might

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. Mercy Otis Warren

Equality Result Democratic Principles Condition

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. Mercy Otis Warren

Prevail Progress Revolution Manners Characters Has-Been Rapid Animated Almost Noblest New Blending Ideas Alteration Principles Been Train American Which American Revolution Nearly Universally

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul. Mercy Otis Warren

Beautiful Character Soul Picture Once Deformed Study Opens Human

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last. Mercy Otis Warren

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. Mercy Otis Warren

War Extraordinary Late Adequate Ability More Colonies Parliament French Were Than Acknowledged Against Measures Cooperation British

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. Mercy Otis Warren

Made Ambition Indeed Prey Countries Bulk Been Turn Mankind

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers. Mercy Otis Warren

War Time Independence Everything Respectable Negotiations Dreaded Foes More Both Footing New Powers Operations Foreign Foreign Powers Friends America Stood Regard Declaration Viewed Many

I don't have a game plan. I have no idea what I'll be doing next. Michael Cristofer

Game No Idea Idea Doing Plan Next Game Plan

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed. Michael Frayn

Destination Changed Everything Reach Discover

I feel bad that I don't feel worse. Michael Frayn

Worse Bad Feel

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green. Michael Frayn

Man Waiting Car Lights Go His Traffic Green Them

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. Moliere

Dog Pet Lover Tries House Well Stand

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