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Minnie Maddern Fiske has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends,…
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The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting…
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Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted…
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As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor.…
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... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats,…
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is…
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...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
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This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
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...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt…
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Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.
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It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after…
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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…
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her…
— Abigail Adams
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
— Georges Bernanos
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
— Winston Churchill
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool…
— Unknown Author
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We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
— Plutarch
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
— Alexander Pope
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It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our…
— Pierre Curie
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Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
— Joan Blades
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A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in…
— Jack Kerouac
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine…
— Wallace Stevens
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