Joan Fontaine Quotes
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.Joan Fontaine
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
Imelda May -
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
Laura Marano -
When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz -
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
Vicki Lawrence -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Nathan Fillion
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As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
Fede Alvarez -
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling -
I have to grow with my audience.
Ice T -
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
Dan Simmons -
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
Hal Holbrook -
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
The audience has always been my best director.
Eartha Kitt -
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
Ian Hacking
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A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
Matthew McConaughey -
I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.
Sebastian Roche -
Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
Frances O'Grady -
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
Joan Fontaine