"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."

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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."

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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Past, Future, Life, Choice

"I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one."

Bob Saget, American Actor

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"What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?"

Thea Harrison, American Author

Past, Curiosity, Secrets, Trust, Action

"I'm really obsessed with the past."

Fisher Stevens, American Actor

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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

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"In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen."

Jacky Ickx, Belgian Celebrity

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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."

Angus Young, Scottish Musician

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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You cannot survive if you do not know the past."

Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist

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"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."

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"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."

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"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."

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"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."

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"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."

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"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."

Writing

"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."

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"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."

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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."

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