"A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment."

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Source : Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre”, p.3, Taylor & Francis

Robert Edmond Jones

#Environment Quotes #Stage Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes

“My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.”
“The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.”
“I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.”
“People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.”
“Danger followed in his wake . . . followed, because it wouldnâ€™t dare get in his way.”
“I thank God that my body has been able to handle this kind of workload. I don't know if I will ever be like Lorenzo White, but that's the goal I'm trying to get to.”
“Happiness real only when shared.”
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.”

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