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Quote by Sylvia Porter

“I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.”

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Sylvia Porter, an American economist, was born on June 18, 1913, and passed away on June 5, 1991. She is renowned for her unique economic perspectives and as a pioneer in the financial field for women. more

“I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.”

“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.”

Play Beautiful Actors Black Loses Walks Acting Wonderful Fronts Forests Losing Yourself Backdrop Ibsen

Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske

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

Mistake Accepting Schemes Blunders

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.”

“New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.”

World Cities New York Food Western Drivers Taxi Waiter Western World Journalistic

Author:Alan Brien

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