Peter Brook Quotes
There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven't done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I'm getting to do it with music instead.
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Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag.
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I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen.
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There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.
