James Agate
Full Name: James Evershed Agate
Birthdate: September 9, 1877
Birthplace: Pendleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: June 6, 1947
Occupation: Diarist, Journalist, and Theatre Critic
Profile: Regarded as one of the best-known literary figures in England.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agate
Number of Quotes: 6
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his work when he does feel like it.
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Shaw's plays are the price we
pay for Shaw's prefaces.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
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