Arthur Miller Quotes - Page 9

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• You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

  Arthur Miller

  One Day, Specialization

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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.

  Arthur Miller

  House, Cameras, Quotation Marks

  "TV's Custom-Tailores 'Salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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• Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Blow, Intelligent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

  Arthur Miller

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

  Arthur Miller

  Laughter, Heart, Laughing

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.591, A&C Black

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• . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

  Arthur Miller

  Thinking, Play, Different

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• That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

  Arthur Miller

  Names, Greek, Good Questions

  The Guardian, January 25, 1990.

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• He's liked, but he's not well liked.

  Arthur Miller

  Sarcastic, Wells, Salesman

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

  Arthur Miller

  Crucible, Naked, Providence

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

  Arthur Miller

  Beer, Justice, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1996). “The Crucible: Revised Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Religious, Cities

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• Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Son, Bed

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• He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

  Arthur Miller

  Crucible, Goodness

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.91, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

  Arthur Miller

  Faith, Blood, Religion

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.

  Arthur Miller

  Stars, Lovely, Shadow

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

  Arthur Miller

  Humanity, Theatre, Crafts

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• Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Giving, Way

  Interview With William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March-April 2001.

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• Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Next, Doe

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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