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People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.

~George Cukor

Topics: Adjusted Being Bland Come Complicated Great Happy Life Most Pay People Performers Perhaps Pretty Price Real Real Life Screen Through Very Well Who

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So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

~George Cukor

Topics: Arrange Beautifully Directors Great How Idea Light Many Meter No Idea Nothing Others Profound Read Say Shot Things

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The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

~George Dennison Prentice

Topics: Deal Easily Formidable Great Great Deal He Himself Man More Other Pen People Than Weapon

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I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.

~George Dzundza

Topics: About Affection Been Cat City Everything Great Great City Here Kindness Live Love Me Met Pajamas People Philadelphia Shocked Where I Love

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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

~George Edward Moore

Topics: Always Artist Before Behind Great Great Artist His Time

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Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Always Beautiful Beautiful City City Crumbling Culture Dying Enrich Great Hill House Inherit Itself Lower May More New Race Rubbish Soil Some Spending Stored Treasure World

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Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Art Brightest Bums Clarity Genius Great Preserving Proportion Race Revealing Significant Soul Vision Which Works

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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Child Civilization Continent Essentially Europe Fame Flood Great He Height His Later Marks Movement North Overflow Renaissance Sequel Shakespeare Western Western Europe Years

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Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Bound Civilization Depends Each Each Man Education Elements Generation Generations Golden Great His Largely Links Live Man Must Our Own Renaissance Saying Shakespeare Together Tradition Understanding Vitality

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The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Action Attempt Been Casual Civilization Control Effort Emotion Great Impressions Introduce Law Makes Men Principle Spontaneous Still Swayed Thought Up Which

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