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Arthur Miller Inspirational Quotes (120)

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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
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Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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Be liked and you will never want.
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I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
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. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.
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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
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The camera has its own kind of consciousness in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
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I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know.
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It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
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... vulgarity has no nation.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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