Quote by Enid Bagnold
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Com

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. – Enid Bagnold

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. – Enid Bagnold

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Daughters
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If a dog doesnt put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesnt happen you are only keeping an animal. – Enid Bagnold

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Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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

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…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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Theater

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface. – Lydia Maria Child

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