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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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Thornton Wilder

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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
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Bette Davis

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If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
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William Shakespeare

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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George Bernard Shaw

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Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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Thornton Wilder

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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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Elbert Hubbard

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Play needs direction as well as work.
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Elbert Hubbard

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Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.
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Josephine Hull

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The last act crowns the play.
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John Ruskin

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The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited.
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Oscar Hammerstein

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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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Oscar Wilde

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Oscar Wilde

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