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"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do."
"One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal."
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
"There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world."
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"But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure."
"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."
"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature."
"There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience."
"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action."
"Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation."
"In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending."
"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."
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