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"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
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"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."
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"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."
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"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."
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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."
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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."
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"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
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"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."
Failure
"The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written."
Soul
"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."
Play
"All experience helps when you write."
Experience
"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent."
Man
"The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control."
War
"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
Fool
"It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do."
Work
"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
Opera
"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
Boredom
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