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George P. Baker
To try to hit public taste in the drama is like trying to hit the bull's-eye of a rapidly shifting target on a very foggy day.
George P. Baker
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
George P. Baker
The moving picture show, too, is at best drama stripped of everything but motion.
George P. Baker
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
George P. Baker
The drama possesses a great literature growing out of an eternal desire of the races.
George P. Baker
The drama is a great revealer of life.
George P. Baker
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
George P. Baker
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George P. Baker
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
George P. Baker
Once the idea was widespread that tragedy and comedy differ essentially in material.