"If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce."

-- Eric Bentley

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“Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.”
“I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere.”
“I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.”
“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”

Source : Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.”
“You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.”
“I wash my cars and clean the garage a lot. That's kind of my thing.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com

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