Mark Twain Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Play Quotes

Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

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Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Work Quotes , Play Quotes

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Games Quotes , Play Quotes

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Eye Quotes , Play Quotes

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Games Quotes , Play Quotes

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Futility Of Life Quotes , Play Quotes

The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

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Rich could play way better than Krupa.

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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Play Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

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I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.

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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Play Quotes

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Children Quotes , Play Quotes

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Dog Quotes , Play Quotes

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Life Quotes , Play Quotes

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Play Quotes , Piano Quotes

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Air Quotes , Play Quotes