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"By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings."
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Arthur Miller
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Theater
"The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly."
Author:
Sean O'Casey
Category:
Theater
"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
Category:
Theater
"It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times."
Author:
William Prynne
Category:
Theater
"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."
Author:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Category:
Theater
"All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life."
Author:
Sydney Smith
Category:
Theater
"In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple."
Author:
J. M. Synge
Category:
Theater
"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Theater
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