What I love about doing live theater and the same material night after night is... you can live inside the same words. There comes a great joy in that, in making it so clear because you've had the time to define it.


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JANE AUSTEN
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN
And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
JANE ADDAMS
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
JANE ADDAMS
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN
. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
JANE AUSTEN
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
JANE AUSTEN
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN
I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN
It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA
Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD
Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
JANE TAYLOR
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA
Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR