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Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding…

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Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends,…
The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting…
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted…
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor.…
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats,…
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is…
...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt…
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after…
Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty…

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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches. — Euripides
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. — Adolf Hitler
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. — Bernard Law Montgomery
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or… — Sarah Waters
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a… — Warren Buffett
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to… — Marya Mannes
Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of… — William Osler
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck
And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside. — Tabitha Suzuma
The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams. — Markus Zusak

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