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David Belasco Quotes

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

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

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

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".

Up is never where you are now.

David Belasco
Attitude, Where You Are

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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