Dan Amboyer Quotes
Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I couldn't deal with a normal life.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I never thought I am a stylish. For me, style is always a representation of what you want to wear but doing it in a unique way and expressing yourself. Every girl loves to be stylish.
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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Time will change who is in power.
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Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast.
