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The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate
The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
James Agate
Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
James Agate
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.
James Agate
I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it...My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
James Agate
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.
James Agate
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If he can't pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any direction except into it. If, however, you force him to look into it, he will at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.
James Agate
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate
My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
James Agate
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
James Agate