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More Ibsen Quotes

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• Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit. — Liv Ullmann
• If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist… — Susannah York
• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James… — Annie Dillard
• I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my… — Alex Kingston
• I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. — Harvey Korman
• Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with… — George Steiner
• You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as… — Philip Larkin
• She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. — P.G. Wodehouse
• A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you… — David Mamet
• I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the… — John Logan
• I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17… — Diane Ladd
• So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs.… — Trevor Nunn

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