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While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

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The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

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Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

Art, Beauty, Drama, Exposition, Music, Sic

Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection. genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.

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The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

Art, Mean, Relied, Requirements, Strong, Theatre

. . . unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

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