"In reading plays, however, it should always be……" — George Pierce Baker
"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action."
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17 Quotes by George Pierce Baker
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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action…
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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and…
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises…
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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice…
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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one…
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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to…
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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