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“A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.” quote by George Ade — Download Open image

“A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.”

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A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive…

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Scatter seeds of kindness.

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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

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Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

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Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

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The higher they fly the harder they fall.

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“Whom are you?” said he, for he had been to night school.”

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The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

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I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be…

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

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Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit…

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As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer

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In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

Robert Aris Willmott

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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

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