You are beautiful. You are sensitive. You are sweet, and I don't want to see you get hurt.
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Bridget Carpenter
Bridget Carpenter (b. New York City) is a television writer and playwright. 2Biography She received an M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995, and has taught playwriting in grammar school, high school, colleges (such as Carleton College), and prisons. Her plays have been produced across the country, at venues including Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and La Mama ETC, New York. She was a playwright-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre in London. She is working on new play commissions from South Coast Repertory and the Mark Taper Forum. She lives in Los Angeles. She has written the book for a musical version of the book (and films) Freaky Friday. The musical premiered in October 2016 at the Signature Theatre, followed by a run from January to March 2017 at the La Jolla Playhouse under the direction of Christopher Ashley. 2Awards She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series at the February 2007 ceremony, for her work on the first season of Friday Night Light
Go with your heart.
You move on with your life. You let him heal.
Sadie: I could swear I do know you. Who are you? Jake: Someone you knew in another life.
We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for…
If you want to change something forever, you can’t ever go back. Going back erases what you did before.
I do make a diet burger. It’s called a salad.
I need you to do what I couldn’t. I need you to go back there to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
You save Kennedy’s life, you make the world a better place.
If you do something that really fucks with the past, the past fucks with you.
Little things matter.
The past doesn’t want to be changed. There are times when you feel it push back.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
It’s wrong to conceal things from those you care for.
Sometimes people hide things inside because they’re afraid.
I’m here because I love everything about you. No matter what happened to you, or what will happen to you, it’s not all bad. Because the person standing in front of me is a wonder. You are a wonder.
When you take on a responsibility to teach, you also take on a responsibility to set an example.