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 grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
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My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.
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The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.
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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
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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.
