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"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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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

"Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me."

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

"Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?"
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"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."

"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."

"Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men."

"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."

"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."

"But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure."

"Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops."

"We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements."
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