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I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts read more
I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts tough but is still sexy.
 Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.  
 Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. 
 To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
 To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
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 To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
 To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
  To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
   Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold--
    For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage. 
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
 The actor who slapped you on the stage waits behind
the curtain to congratulate you on your performance
Sai Baba
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 The actor who slapped you on the stage waits behind
the curtain to congratulate you on your performance
Sai Baba
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 And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop
 To the low mimic follies of a farce,
  As read more 
 And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop
 To the low mimic follies of a farce,
  As a grave matron would to dance with girls. 
 A long, exact, and serious comedy;
 In every scene some moral let it teach,
  And, if it read more 
 A long, exact, and serious comedy;
 In every scene some moral let it teach,
  And, if it can, at once both please and preach. 
 If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good 
play needs no epilogue.  
 If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good 
play needs no epilogue. 
 Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks;
 Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.
  The founder's read more 
 Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks;
 Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.
  The founder's you: the table is the place:
   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.
    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,
     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.
      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.
       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?
        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true
         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.
          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.
           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:
            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,
             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.