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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. -- George Pierce Baker
I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut. -- John Fusco
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. -- Patrick Marber
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. -- George Pierce Baker
I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it. -- Stephen Lang
I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays. -- Michael Ritchie
Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to bring to your work. You are your palette, so give yourself as many colors as possible to paint with. -- Gideon Glick
This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. -- Jeffrey Jones
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. -- Arthur Smith
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends. -- Rashida Jones
The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience. -- Jesse Eisenberg
With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. -- Tom Stoppard
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. -- Rita Dove
In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play. -- Alice McDermott
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! -- Mariella Frostrup
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments. -- Jim Evans
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. -- Igor Stravinsky
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad. -- Olly Murs
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. -- Patrick White
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. -- Stephen Mangan
Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations. -- A. N. Wilson
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business. -- Charlie Ergen
My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not. -- Dorothy Fields
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. -- Al Pacino
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I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner MÃ¼ller. -- Jenny Hval
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters... -- C. S. Lewis

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