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If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. (Ward Fred)
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. (Ward Fred)
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. (Ward Fred)
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. (Ward Fred)
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. (Ward Fred)
Play needs direction as well as work. (Ward Fred)
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. (Ward Fred)
The last act crowns the play. (Ward Fred)
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. (Ward Fred)
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. (Ward Fred)
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. (Ward Fred)
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. (Ward Fred)
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. (Ward Fred)
Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. (Ward Fred)
A play visibly represents pure existing. (Ward Fred)
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. (Ward Fred)
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. (Ward Fred)
Now that I've played the snotty, bossy, posh Hermione Granger, I'd like to play some American high school girl. I want to play something totally different. I want to play every kind of character and every point of view, but I'm probably going to be playing Hermione for a while. (Ward Fred)
We've played together for so long that we are so connected, ... We play like we're one person. (Ward Fred)
I don't like to play the victim. (Ward Fred)
Even if you play a villain, you do an injustice to him if he's just, like, programmed to do those things. It's always more complex. (Ward Fred)
I used to be the big cheese. Now I'm playing just a dumb part. (Ward Fred)
I would rather play Percy Marmont roles than Lon Chaney types of things. (Ward Fred)
I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person. (Ward Fred)
If you are not serious, people will sense it. (Ward Fred)
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