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• An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.

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  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

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  Knowing, People, Heaven

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• Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

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  Kissing, Clouds, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257

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• The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

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  Success, Failure, Evil

  Laurence Sterne (1872). “The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.301

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• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

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  Holy Days, Miracle, Saint

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.144

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• What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

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  Life, Men, Sorrow

  Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.313

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• Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

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  Joy, Feelings, Sorrow

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• In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

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  Men, Humanity, Pay

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

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• It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things, that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immovable within it, that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it!

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  Men, Light, Air

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• A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

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  Men, Ideas, Dresses

  1759-67 Tristram Shandy, bk.9, ch.13.

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• I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

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  Hurt, Uncles, Animal

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• The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

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  Men, Essence, Long Ago

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.17

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• When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

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  Taken, Feet, Way

  Laurence Sterne (1800). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy: to which are added the letters to Eliza”, p.92

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• The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.

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  Responsibility, Goal, Effort

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• I am sick as a horse.

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  Horse, Sick

  Laurence Sterne (1819). “The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy. pt.6-9. A sentimental journey through France and Italy. pt.1-2”, p.84

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• If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

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  Passion, Mean, Action

  'A Sentimental Journey' (1768) 'Montriul'

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• Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

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  Silly, Men, World

  Tristram Shandy bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759 - 1767)

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• I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

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  Suffering, One Day, Three

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.146

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• A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining; rumple the one, you rumple the other.

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  Men, Mind, Body

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.109

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• We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

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  Water, Receiving, World

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.152, Hackett Publishing

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• That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bst-- I'm sure it is the most religious-- for I begin with writing the first sentence-- and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

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  Religious, Book, Writing

  Laurence Sterne (1808). “The works of Laurence Sterne”, p.158

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• The brave only know how to forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Brave, Forgiving

  Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.139, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran

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• The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

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  Scandal, Austin, Stories

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

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  Friends, World, May

  Laurence Sterne (1847). “Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C”, p.93

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• ...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

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  Beauty, Glorious

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.166

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