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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
At Bayern, I have rediscovered the pleasure of playing. Here, my body is completely free.
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.
It would be a pleasure to play against England. They are one of the top teams.
It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.
'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren't new.
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
I've been playing football for 23 years and with more than 30 nationalities; that has been a pleasure.
One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.
The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
It is a real pleasure to collaborate with Frida Giannini and Gucci to celebrate one of the House's most elegant symbols: the horsebit.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
For me it's a pleasure to be trained by Zidane. I am just very thankful for all he has been asking me to do and for helping me to evolve.
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.
I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center, and it was always so much fun.
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.
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