George Pierce
George Pierce
hide kids
It is not the end of the world. Don't try to hide it from the kids or the spouse.
ask five runner top
We put five in the top 15 and my sixth-place runner p.r'd by 30 seconds. You can't ask for any more than that.
accidents few quite slow
There are quite a few accidents at this intersection. We think it will slow down some of the kids.
cleaned maria needs santa trash
It needs to be cleaned up. We want it to look like the Santa Maria Cemetery. The trash needs to be cleaned up.
amtrak leave problem supposed
We were supposed to leave on the Amtrak Crescent to New Orleans, but we have a little problem down there.
absurd best farce granted logically move premise start
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.
entirely great however stage
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
great however loses remembered seen
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
improbable treats
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
best
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
adequate dramatic instinct itself memorable pleasure produces provide
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
appeal best encourage foster limit poorest thereby weakest
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.
ages barbarism essence
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.
acted requires
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.