Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes

#1. You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#2. People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward

Haruki Murakami

#3. You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

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#4. Among the most disheartening and dangerous of ... advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever ...

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#5. I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

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#6. An actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#7. Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Chris Hedges

#8. As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

Gloria Steinem

#9. Be reflective ... and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

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#10. People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

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#11. Math test tomorrow.
Check.
Complete lack of preparation for test.
Check.

Rick Riordan

#12. It was like every man in my life knew exactly what I wanted them to do and then did the exact opposite, just to fuck with me. "I'm

Donna Augustine

#13. How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

Sanjaya Malakar

#14. The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#15. This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#16. Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

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#17. Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

John Ruskin

#18. Above all, ignore the audience.

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#19. If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#21. Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

Minnie Maddern Fiske