David Belasco Quotes

• If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

  David Belasco

  Writing, Ideas, Cards

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• Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

  David Belasco

  Song, Drama, Light

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• We mustn't waste time; for that's the stuff life's made of.

  David Belasco

  Time, Stuff, Made

  "Six plays: Madame Butterfly; Du Barry; The darling of the gods; Adrea; The girl of the golden West; The return of Peter Grimm".

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• Up is never where you are now.

  David Belasco

  Attitude, Where You Are

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• Boxing is show-business with blood.

  David Belasco

  Blood, Boxing, Shows

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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