Peter Hall Quotes
Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
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Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
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I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.
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Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.
