"Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry."

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Mignon McLaughlin

#Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”

Source : Our Town act 3 (1938)
“Every time we have been drunk on Jager it's been - either we didn't remember or it's been insane.”

Source : Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.
“Belize, with the help of God and the support of its people, will stand upright and will do its duty and help bring peace, stability and prosperity to our region and to wider circles of our planet Earth.”
“It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.”
“Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.”
“So what do they do? They start writing articles in the New York Daily News. Boy, that's a paper that loves to write crap on people, isn't it? Wanna talk about a paper that supports fascism! Man, I've seen more doctors hatcheted in there. The butchery they did on Emmanuel Revici, the butchery they did on Lawrence Burton, calling him nothing more -- what was the quote the guy said?. . . "Burton is nothing more than a horse doctor." Denigrating him, tearing down his character.”
“Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.”
“She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you.”

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