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Monday, November 24, 2014

Let your work speak


“The best part of one’s life is the working part, the creative part.  Believe me, I love to succeed…however, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.”

So said Garson Kanin, born this day, who was a prolific writer and noted Broadway director.  Among his many hit shows were The Diary of Anne Frank, Funny Girl and Born Yesterday, which he started writing while serving as a soldier and filmmaker in World War II. His major war role was documenting Dwight Eisenhower’s official record of the Allied Invasion, resulting in the Academy Award-winning documentary True Glory.  A novelist, too, he wrote the bestseller Smash, basis for a recent television series. 

His most famous line from the long-running Born Yesterday  -- in which I was fortunate enough to have a community theater role -- is enshrined on a New York City Public Library plaque.  It was delivered by journalist Paul Verrall, who says: "I want everyone to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in."

  
Garson Kanin

Kanin also is famously quoted as saying, “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”  Seventy-five years after he said that, his writer's moments continue to speak. 

  
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