Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
career earlier high playwright produced project school senior title tragedy
When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'
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Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.
dexter family love
I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.
sees
The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.
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If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.
terrible terrible-things
What a terrible thing life can be.
believe black-and-white thinking
I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.
nice problem reason
It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.
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I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.
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It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .
terrible depends
It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.
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Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...
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I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.