James Agate
James Agate
James Evershed Agatewas a British diarist and critic. In the period between the wars, he was one of Britain's most influential theatre critics. After working in his father's business until his late twenties he found his way into journalism, being on the staff of The Manchester Guardian; drama critic for The Saturday Review, and The Sunday Times, and holding the same post for the BBC...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth9 September 1877
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My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
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Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat, drink, smoke, and relax. 4. I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
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I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
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My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.
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I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain
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I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.
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New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
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A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
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In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
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The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.
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The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
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Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.