Moss Hart Quotes
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Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there…
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Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then…
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The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.
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Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and…
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How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them?…
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All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.
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Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
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Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
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One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.
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A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always…
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One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.
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Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not…
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The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise…
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There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
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A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can…
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Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.
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Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.
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I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a…
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Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.
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The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of…
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