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• The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Octopus, Gossip, Monsters

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• What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, What Matters, Joy

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• A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Intelligent, Voice

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• Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Actors, Action, Should

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• I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Cities, Usa, America

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• I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Artist, Acting, Titles

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• I do love cricket - it's so very English.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Cricket

  c.1905 On being taken to see a game of football in Manchester. Quoted in R Buckle Nijinsky (1971).

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• I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Country, Business, Critical Moments

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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• The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Kings, Play, Actors

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• ... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Water, Acting, Genius

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Ideas, Theatre, Crowds

  "The Art of the Theatre".

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• Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Joy, Age, Misery

  Sarah Bernhardt (2013). “My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt”, p.372, Library of Alexandria

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• Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Country, Ideas, France

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Theatre, Truth Is, Proportion

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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