A Quote by Brooks Atkinson
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.
It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.
It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.
The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?
I'd like to think I am a good coach but I've called bad plays. I've coached bad practices. I've made bad substitution choices.
It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
I'm not like a gearhead in the sense that I'm not all that useful under the hood, but I am a, I would say, a gear enthusiast. I love to drive anything; I love to drive cars I'm not good at driving with crazy shifters.
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive a politician's policy choices but instead whether those choices are good for the country.
When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.
My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.
The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.
The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.
Let me show you how to drive me crazy,Let me show you how to make me feel so good,Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do.
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