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  • " Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs."

    - John Osborne

    Source: Time, 31 October 1977


  • " Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping."

    - Jean Cocteau

    Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/critics.html


  • " The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours."

    - Lee Adams

    Source: Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists on Theater


  • " Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward."

    - Walter Kerr

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walter_kerr.html


  • " Wherever it came from, the musical came with its hair mussed and with an innocent, indolent, irreverent look on its bright, bland face."

    - Walter Kerr

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walter_kerr.html


  • " No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world."

    - Kenneth Tynan

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/kenneth_tynan.html


  • " I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

    - Oscar Wilde

    Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/acting


  • " Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."

    - Ralph Richardson

    Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/acting


  • " Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent."

    - Alan Rickman

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alanrickma251358.html


  • " But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. If I write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart."

    - Beth Henley

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/beth_henley.html


  • " Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving."

    - Hank Russo

    Source: http://www.museummarketingtips.com/quotes/giving.html


  • " Donors don't give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe."

    - G.T. Smith

    Source: http://www.museummarketingtips.com/quotes/giving.html


  • " In good times and bad, we know that people give because you meet needs, not because you have needs."

    - Kay Grace

    Source: http://www.museummarketingtips.com/quotes/giving.html


  • " Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

    - Oprah Winfrey

    Source: http://www.museummarketingtips.com/quotes/giving.html


  • " The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

    - William James

    Source: http://www.museummarketingtips.com/quotes/giving.html


  • " Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

    - Margaret Cousins

    Source: http://www.museummarketingtips.com/quotes/giving.html


  • " You cannot expect people to give to you on an annual basis if they have never heard of your organization or are unaware of what you do in the community and why it is so important. As part of this annual giving plan, your board of directors (with staff help) needs to have a time of brainstorming so you can identify all your “target markets” i.e. those people with whom you need to establish a relationship."

    - NonprofitExpert.com

    Source: http://www.nonprofitexpert.com/annualgiving.htm


  • " Directing takes such a big lump out of your life."

    - Alan Rickman

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alanrickma251372.html


  • " Theatre is like a virus: once you get it you can't get rid of it."

    - Robin Boisseau

    Source: http://www.hamptonu.edu/academics/schools/libarts/fparts/facultyandstaff.htm


  • " When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking."

    - August Wilson

    Source: http://www.notable-quotes.com/p/playwriting_quotes.html