Florenz Ziegfeld Quotes

#1. I thought: Now I am like Dante. I walk through hell, but I am not burning.

Edith Hahn Beer

#2. Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

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#3. Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

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#4. They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

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#5. What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

James Belushi

#6. What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Oscar Wilde

#7. STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. It's not failure, it's practice

Brigitta Moon

#9. Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

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#10. I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.

Tony Kushner

#11. Against one perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

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#13. His ears and nose were raspberry red, and when he spoke, a cloud of vapor billowed from his mouth. I wanted to tell him to cover his ears, immediately felt like my mother, and didn't. He's a big boy. If his lobes crack off, he'll deal with it.

Kathy Reichs

#14. It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

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#15. To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

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#16. Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.

Arthur Whitten Brown

#17. Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

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#18. And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

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#19. But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

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#20. How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

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#21. I'd relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn't a guarantee for happiness.

Jeaniene Frost

#22. No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.

Alice Hoffman

#23. Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

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#24. I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

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#25. When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

Maxim Gorky

#26. Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

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