Pete Townshend Quotes
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I feel more confident and like I have more to say. I feel like I'm working more than ever, not just from fantasy, but actual experience. I'm an adult now - I actually have experience.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.
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An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
