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Museums Quotes

"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."

"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."

Elizabeth Perkins, American Actress

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"Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures."

"Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures."

George Segal, American Actor

Museums, Property

9

"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."

"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."

Henry James, American Writer

9

"There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals."

"There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals."

Julie Harris, American Actress

8

"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."

"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

8

"We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved."

"We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved."

Jim Dale, British Musician

Museums, Old, Talk, Theatre

7

"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."

"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."

Roger Caras, American Activist

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