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Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. - Robe

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. – Robert Brustein

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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein

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Theater
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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. – Harold Clurman

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I just love, I love, I love movies. – Laura Dern

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Theater

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

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Theater

…I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. – William Shakespeare

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And thats my religion. – Abraham Lincoln

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If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott

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The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses. – Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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