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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.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
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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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Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
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Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew it is the other.
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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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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
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Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
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Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
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The world is always ending the exact date depends on when you came into it.
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The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
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Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
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Be liked and you will never want.
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A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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