 I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. Author: Alan Ladd
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| Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. Author: Alex Cox
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| My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! Author: Anne Baxter
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| I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though. Author: Anthony Anderson
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| I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things. Author: Anthony Hopkins
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| And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life. Author: Anthony Quinn
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| Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me. Author: Anthony Quinn
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| A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. Author: Arthur Miller
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| In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy. Author: Asa Hutchinson
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| But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright. Author: Beth Henley
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| It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. Author: Beth Henley
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| Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players. Author: Bill Kreutzmann
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| I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. Author: Bob Balaban
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| If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. Author: Brad Dourif
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| But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Author: Carl Sagan
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| The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. Author: Charles Kettering
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| Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated. Author: Chief Joseph
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| It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time. Author: Dakota Fanning
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| Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. Author: David Byrne
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| Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money. Author: David Geffen
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| Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes. Author: Dennis Muren
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| I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? Author: Don DeLillo
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| Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do. Author: Donald Sutherland
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| The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. Author: Dorothea Brande
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| That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner. Author: Douglas Wood
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| I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. Author: Edie Brickell
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| I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. Author: Elvis Presley
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| As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand. Author: Ethel Merman
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| I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious. Author: Evan Parker
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| I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. Author: Francis Ford Coppola
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| However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. Author: Frederick Reines
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| I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. Author: Frederick Reines
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| San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. Author: Gavin Newsom
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| An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. Author: George Jean Nathan
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| The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. Author: George P. Baker
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| Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't. Author: Ian St. John
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| Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. Author: Jane Birkin
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| It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that. Author: Jason Isaacs
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| We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour. Author: Jay Kay
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| Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. Author: Joe E. Lewis
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| I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors. Author: Joe Pantoliano
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| It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. Author: John Lithgow
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| It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America. Author: Jon Voight
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| I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. Author: Jose Saramago
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| All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. Author: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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| But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. Author: Larry Niven
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| I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. Author: Laura Linney
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| But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to. Author: Lawrence Kasdan
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| I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright. Author: Liev Schreiber
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| I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. Author: Lusia Strus
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| I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. Author: Lusia Strus
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| By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash. Author: Marg Helgenberger
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| Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future. Author: Mark Helprin
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| The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom. Author: Max von Sydow
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| Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. Author: Mercedes McCambridge
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| And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today. Author: Michael Burgess
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| In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after. Author: Michael McCaul
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| As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember. Author: Neil Armstrong
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| Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World. Author: Oliver Stone
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| I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material. Author: Orlando Bloom
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| I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. Author: Orson Scott Card
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| I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. Author: Peter Shaffer
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| It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. Author: Peter Shaffer
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| By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. Author: Peter Ustinov
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| Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. Author: Peter Ustinov
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| The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. Author: Robert Anderson
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| If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur. Author: Robert Crandall
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| You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. Author: Sam Shepard
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| The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. Author: Stella Adler
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| A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. Author: Terence Rattigan
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| My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. Author: Terry Brooks
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| A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. Author: Timothy West
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| The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. Author: Timothy West
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| Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. Author: Travis Barker
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| One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. Author: Vivien Leigh
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| Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us. Author: Wayne Coyne
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| Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad. Author: Wayne Coyne
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| Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good. Author: Whoopi Goldberg
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| Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. Author: William Goldman
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| A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. Author: Wilson Mizner
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