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  • There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Expression Quotes , Play Quotes
  • One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes
  • When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Play Quotes , Theatre Quotes