"There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead."

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Source : Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.4, Routledge

Robert Edmond Jones

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“Save in the office and affairs of love.”
“It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
“It's not an easy thing to be let go.”
“We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.”
“Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.”
“I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.”
“I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.”

Source : "Fame According To Me" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.
“Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.”

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