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 only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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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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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
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At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
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Only ugliness is obscene.
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I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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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.
