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«Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.»
Author: Anna Pavlova
(Dancer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
although, fruits, tasted, theatrical, theatricals
«Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
by nature, pornography, protest, tense, theatrical, theatricals, violations
«The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
baby-faced, disgrace, hallucination, hallucinations, popularity, possessed, theatrical, theatricals, The Elements
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
«The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
discussion, drama, lends, readily, theater, theatrical, theatricals
«January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle
| Keywords:
anxious, forehead, January, month, pockets, producer, producers, theatrical, theatricals, theatrical producer, The producer, The Producers
«From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
candidate, delivery, good looks, nominate, nominated, nominating, predict, theatrical
«The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
declaration, Declaration of, Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, ran, theatrical, theatricals, The Declaration of Independence
«Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Literature,
Quotations
| Keywords:
borrower, Borrowers, mimic, mimics, quotation, theatrical, theatricals
«The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, conjecture, conjectures, first appearance, monarch, monarchs, performances, pit, prognostication, retirement, theatrical, theatricals, the pit
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