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

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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 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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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. – Howard Barker

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