{"quotes":[{"text":"Opportunity plays a big role in having success.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["big","labor","money","opportunity","plays","prosperity","riches","role","success","truth-of-life","wealth"],"id":13998,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them also, for I like to make Merry among the Fallen and there is pleasure to be had in the Observation of the Deformity of Things. Thus when the Play resumed after the Disturbance, it was only to excite my Ridicule with its painted Fictions, wicked Hypocrisies and villainous Customs, all depicted with a little pert Jingle of Words and a rambling kind of Mirth to make the Insipidnesse and Sterility pass. There was no pleasure in seeing it, and nothing to burden the Memory after: like a voluntarie before a Lesson it was absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembered or repeated.","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["audience","audiences","crowds","entertainment","play","plays"],"id":47378,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.","author":"L.M. Elliott","tags":["music","novels","plays","poetry","reading"],"id":50166,"author_id":"L.M.+Elliott"},{"text":"Tell me something wonderful,' he said to Dane. 'Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep.'You're always writing one of your plays on the phone,' said Dane.'I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime.'It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea.'Ah,' said Harry.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["conversations","dreams","like-life","lorrie-moore","love","loved","plays","reality","sloppy","springtime","wet","writing"],"id":50914,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.","author":"Rebecca Murphy","tags":["funny","humerous","imagination","plays","theater"],"id":57379,"author_id":"Rebecca+Murphy"},{"text":"I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.","author":"Annie Dillard","tags":["end-of-the-world","plays","world"],"id":68026,"author_id":"Annie+Dillard"},{"text":"The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.","author":"Suzan-Lori Parks","tags":["drama","plays","theater"],"id":69912,"author_id":"Suzan-Lori+Parks"},{"text":"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["drama","humor","plays"],"id":84959,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"O, thou art fairer than the evening air     Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;     Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter     When he appear'd to hapless Semele;     More lovely than the monarch of the sky     In wanton Arethusa's azur'd armsExcerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.","author":"Christopher Marlowe","tags":["drama","faust","marlowe","plays"],"id":85588,"author_id":"Christopher+Marlowe"},{"text":"I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.","author":"Paul McAuley","tags":["ending","gods","greek","plays"],"id":91491,"author_id":"Paul+McAuley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}