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.
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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.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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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.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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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.
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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.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.
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I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.
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I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.
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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.
