"You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie."

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Elaine Stritch

#Lying Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Refugees, especially in their early years, are still caught up in the experience that made them refugees. And they're much more melancholic. They're much more oriented towards the past and towards the country of origin. That can make the process of becoming a part of the new country much more fraught for them.”
“The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.”
“I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. December 1, 2004.
“All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane ...”
“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.”
“Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't.”
“The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.”
“What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol? What is its name? Its name is Junk. Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape.”

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