#playwrights

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#as far as #average #average person #concerned #considered

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#actors #dinner #drama #dramatic #fantastic

I have no great faith in women’s plays. They always seem to me to lack precisely that which women lack, viz: testicles. ↗

— George Henry Boker

#faith

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#art

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#destruction #examining #fears #filmmakers #issues

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. ↗

— Stella Adler

#always #best #even #experiences #great