“ Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod. ”
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
~ Noël Coward
Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.
All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.
Strange how potent cheap music is.
