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"I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing."
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"Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure."
"What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm."
"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do."
"Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits."
"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
"Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean."
"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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