Pay Quote by James Agate Download Open image “Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.” — James Agate ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pay Play
Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who got the most terrible notices for… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
If the player performs well and helps us to achieve our goals, nobody will speak about the price of the player. — Marco Silva Copy Share Image
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do… — James Agate Copy Share Image
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. — James Agate Copy Share Image
This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of… — James Agate Copy Share Image
I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind… — James Agate Copy Share Image
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. — James Agate Copy Share Image
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. — James Agate Copy Share Image
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or… — James Agate Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis. — James Agate Copy Share Image
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. — James Agate Copy Share Image
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. — James Agate Copy Share Image
I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an… — James Agate Copy Share Image
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People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Britain should take pride in a foreign policy that reflects her values and responsibilities - but it must be grounded in the tangible interests… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image