Virginia Woolf Quotes, Play Quotes, Age Quotes

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

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If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

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Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.

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Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

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Those who play a safe game die very safely.

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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

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The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

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God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

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

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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

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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.

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Life should be lived as play.

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

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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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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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