Peter Brook Quotes
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.
Quotes to Explore
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.
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I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.
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Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
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When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.
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The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.
