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"Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good." »P. G. Wodehouse
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"I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries." »Frank Capra
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"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." »Jack Lemmon
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"drama is life with the dull bits cut out." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama." »E.M. Cioran
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"I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity." »Orlando Bloom
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"The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine drama that extends into Eternity." »Edwin Markham
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"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews." »John Updike
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"No statue has ever been put up to a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."" »Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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"A critic is a legless man who teaches running." »Channing Pollock
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill
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"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him." »Author Unknown
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"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." »James McNeill Whistler
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" »Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
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"Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste." »Whitney Balliett
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"And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama." »Real Live Preacher
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"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by." »Christopher Morley
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan
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"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams." »Eric Anderson
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"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." »James Earl Jones
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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life." »Henry Van Dyke
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"Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe." »Flannery O'Connor
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"We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'" »Michel MacLiammir
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"critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." »Lavina Goodell
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