David Belasco quotes

“If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.”
-- David Belasco

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“Up is never where you are now.”
-- David Belasco

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“Boxing is show-business with blood.”
-- David Belasco

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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“Time is the stuff life's made of.”
-- David Belasco

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“Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.”
-- David Belasco

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“We mustn't waste time; for that's the stuff life's made of.”
-- David Belasco

Source : "Six plays: Madame Butterfly; Du Barry; The darling of the gods; Adrea; The girl of the golden West; The return of Peter Grimm".

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“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.”

“If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation

“I am not a good cue card reader.”

“A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.”

“I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.”