Arthur Miller Quotes
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
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?
People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed.
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory
A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
