Quotes by George P. Baker - Page 1

The drama is a great revealer of life.
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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
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Impossible
Treats
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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
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Oneself
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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
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Drama
Play
Self
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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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Drama
Giving
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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
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Immature
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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.
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Play
Reading
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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
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Happiness
Drama
Laughter
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We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.
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Drama
Elements
Limits
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
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Moving
Today
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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
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Civilization
Drama
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
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Past
Practice
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When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
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Drama
Literature
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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
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Clever
Differences
Views
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
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Play
Tragedy
Years
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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
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Drama
Giving
Perfect
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Possibly, a crush is merely the attraction a person has for another person. Most relationships start with some sort of attraction. You see someone you like or you see things about a person you like and feel attracted to them. Many mistake this for love, but attraction is a powerful force.
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Crush
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