"The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays."

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Stella Adler

#Play Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Important Quotes

“I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press
“Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“What we need is equality without conformity.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.365, Spectra
“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
“I think marriage is between a man and a woman. I think we're all created equal in God's eyes, I think we need to respect and love those we disagree with. I think we can have religious liberty without discrimination. My views on marriage aren't evolving with the polls. It's based on my faith, I think it should remain between a man and a woman.”
“The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.”
“People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.”

Source : Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.149, TAN Books

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