Peter Brook Quotes
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
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I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.
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It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.
