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.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Bad
  • Actor
  • First

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Great
  • History
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Best
  • Machines
  • Smoke

• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Opportunities
  • Hood

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• 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.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Growing

• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Always
  • Insecurity
  • Out

• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Now
  • Sword
  • Now And Then

• 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.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • World
  • Hollywood

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Judge

• I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Unique
  • Youth
  • Million

• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Person
  • Glory
  • Accomplish

• I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Littles
  • Get Better

• The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Learning

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

  

  Chris Lilley

• I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

  

  Peter Brook
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