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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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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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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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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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Its one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman. – Tallulah Bankhead

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I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that its more of an actors medium. I think that film is more of a directors medium. You cant edit something out on stage. Its there. – Kim Cattrall

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