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“Napoleon has been portrayed in films, musicals, plays, television shows and adverts; in artwork, fiction, historical biography and video games. He has even been the subject of psychological theories and syndromes. Napoleon remains a global cultural icon 250 years after his birth in Ajaccio, Corsica, on 15 August 1769.”
— Martin Chilton, My, my! How Napoleon is still influencing culture more than 200 years after his death
Tagged: Joqauin Phoenix, Napoleon Bonaparte, film, Musical, Plays, Television, TV
“Harris’s latest, A Boy’s Company Presents: “Tell Me If I’m Hurting You,” was meant to premiere at Playwrights Horizons’s Mainstage Theater in May; but, like so many other productions this spring, it was postponed by the coronavirus pandemic.”
— Marley Marius, What Happens When a Play Is Paused? Jeremy O. Harris and Collaborators Discuss a Non-Production
Tagged: Theater, Plays, Art
“It’s not always up to us how history plays itself out.”
— Tom Kirkman, Designated Survivor, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: History, Plays, uncertain, Unpredictable
“I now am able to ask you to read this book the way you would watch a play: not to emerge saying, "The play is right!" but rather to observe that the play reveals human nuance, contradiction, limitation, joy, connection, and the tragedy of separation.”
— Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Tagged: Conflict, dialogue, Stories, Books, Plays
“In the long history of medicine, no doctor has ever caught the first few minutes of a play.”
— Leonard McCoy, Star Trek, Season 1: The Conscience of the King
Tagged: Medicine, doctors, Plays
“The longest play in a game is six and a half seconds. The shortest play is less than two seconds. That’s barely a wink of the eye. You’ll average five seconds a play. Five seconds of total effort, going all out, giving a hundred percent. You oughta be able to hold your hand in a fire that long.”
— Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant's Six Minutes Speech- All Pro Dad
Tagged: Football, Plays, Giving 100 Percent, Effort
“I feel like I’m wandering through the lost epilogue of Our Town.”
— Veronica Lodge, Riverdale, Season 1: Chapter One
Tagged: Pop Culture, Plays, Literary References, Meta, Small Towns
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe into Hey, nonny nonny.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Tagged: Balthasar, shakespeare, Plays, Comedies, Men, Unfaithful

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