Mark Rylance Quotes
I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
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I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.
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My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.
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Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.
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I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
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I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.
