You can always spot a well-informed man -- his views are the same as yours.
¶ (Attributed)
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Ilka Chase (1905-1978) American actress, writer
ANONYMOUS ACTRESS: I enjoyed your book. Who wrote it for you?
CHASE: Darling, I'm so glad you liked it. Who read it to you?
¶ (Attributed)
Regarding her autobiography, Past Imperfect (1942)
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
¶ (Attributed)
quoted in Cooper & Hartman, "Mrs. Crankhurst" (1980); http://www.bartleby.com/66/29/11429.html
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.
¶ Past Imperfect (1942)
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.
¶ Past Imperfect (1942)
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