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Playwright Inspirational Quotes (48414)

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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
Fernando Pessoa
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
Kurt Vonnegut
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Maya Angelou
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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
Annie Baker
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Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
Annie Baker
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy
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Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!
James Sheridan Knowles
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Our whole life is like a play.
Ben Jonson
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens
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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. Lucas
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The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
Ernest Hemingway
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life they live badly who always begin to live.
Seneca the Younger
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
Nadine Gordimer
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When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.
Tyler Perry
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A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
Tyler Perry
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There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.
Tyler Perry
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When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
Tyler Perry
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I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
Tyler Perry
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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
Tyler Perry
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I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!
Tyler Perry
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Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!
Tyler Perry
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If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.
Tyler Perry
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
Seneca the Younger
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