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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In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
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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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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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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 meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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It is beautiful to be what you are.
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This will be a tremendous opportunity to showcase one of the great cities in America and one of the great ballparks in Major League Baseball. And what better place to have our first World Baseball Classic finals than in a city and with a team that has such strong international roots and international outreach.
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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.
