Anton Chekhov Quotes, Play Quotes, Theatre Quotes

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

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A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

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Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

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PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

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Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

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There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.

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Tags : A. P. Herbert Quotes , Play Quotes , Symphony Quotes

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

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Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

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A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

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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.

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The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

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How every fool can play upon the word!

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It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

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