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Greg Pierotti
Marge Murray is the mother of Reggie Fluty, a good friend of Alison Mears, a former bartender, and a lifelong Laramie resident. Marge offers the interviewers context on the culture of Laramie and its attitude towards gay people. Marge also discusses Reggie’s HIV exposure after responding to Aaron Kreifels’ 911 call for Matthew. Marge and Reggie have a jocular, loving mother-daughter relationship. Marge, who becomes close with some of the Laramie interviewers and even tells them she loves them when they leave, helps to show that not only did The Laramie Project change Laramie, but people like Marge affected the lives of members of the Tectonic Theater Company.
Marge Murray Quotes in The Laramie Project
The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Marge Murray or refer to Marge Murray. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1: Alison and Marge
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As far as the gay issue, I don’t give a damn one way or the other as long as they don’t bother me. And even if they did, I’d just say no thank you. And that’s the attitude of most of the Laramie population. They might poke one, if they were in a bar situation you know, they had been drinking, they might actually smack one in the mouth, but then they’d just walk away…Laramie is live and let live.
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Act 2: Seeing Matthew
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And quite frankly I wanted to lash out at somebody. Not at Matthew, please understand that, not one of us was mad at Matthew. But we maybe wanted to squeeze McKinney’s head off. And I think about Henderson. And, you know, two absolutely human beings cause so much grief for so many people.
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Act 3: Departure
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To show it’s not the hellhole of the earth would be nice, but that is up to how you portray us. And that in turn is up to how Laramie behaves.
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Marge Murray Quotes in The Laramie Project
The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Marge Murray or refer to Marge Murray. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Act 1: Alison and Marge
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As far as the gay issue, I don’t give a damn one way or the other as long as they don’t bother me. And even if they did, I’d just say no thank you. And that’s the attitude of most of the Laramie population. They might poke one, if they were in a bar situation you know, they had been drinking, they might actually smack one in the mouth, but then they’d just walk away…Laramie is live and let live.
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Act 2: Seeing Matthew
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And quite frankly I wanted to lash out at somebody. Not at Matthew, please understand that, not one of us was mad at Matthew. But we maybe wanted to squeeze McKinney’s head off. And I think about Henderson. And, you know, two absolutely human beings cause so much grief for so many people.
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Act 3: Departure
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To show it’s not the hellhole of the earth would be nice, but that is up to how you portray us. And that in turn is up to how Laramie behaves.
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