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But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.


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ARTHUR KOESTLER We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and ...
ARTHUR O'SHAUNESSEY I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only...
ARTHUR PINE If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on...
ARTHUR MILLER Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
ARTHUR KOESTLER We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No one can transcend their own individuality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
ARTHUR KOESTLER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
ARTHUR KOESTLER The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER