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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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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. – 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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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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This…is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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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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Theater

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out ones acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet ones friends, and show that ones alive. – Fanny Burney

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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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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China. – Jet Li

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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. – Barry Commoner

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