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Theatre Critic Inspirational Quotes (466)

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There is one story and one story only.
Robert Graves
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.
Kenneth Tynan
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I have a sort of empty feeling nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
Bram Stoker
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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes
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The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
George Henry Lewes
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While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
Octave Mirbeau
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The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.
Kenneth Tynan
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Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
Dick Schaap
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.
Robert Graves
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Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
Robert Graves
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People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
Jeremy Collier
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.
Robert Graves
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
Emile Zola
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' - 'Joy of Life
Emile Zola
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A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
Robert Graves
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Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
George Henry Lewes
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What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?
Jeremy Collier
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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Harold Clurman
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My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.
James Agate
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Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
Robert Graves
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No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
Robert Brustein
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Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
George Henry Lewes
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It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.
John Simon
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