I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.