A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLERHe’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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