All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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Unknown
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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William Shakespeare
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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William Shakespeare
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
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Marsha Norman
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
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Vincent H. ONeil
More Quotes By Elly Griffiths
You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.
You need a break, a complete rest, recharge your batteries.' Recharge your batteries. What the hell does that mean? Nelson prides himself on not needing batteries. He's an old-fashioned, wind-up model.
There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows.
He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.
When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No, ' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.
