John Rawls Quotes
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
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Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. It Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
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I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...
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To be perfectly frank, I really do not.
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.
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Every time you get told you get a part, it's just wonderfully soothing and incredibly fantastic and healing. You have a bad day at school, you come home and get told you've got a part in something, and it's just like, 'Yeah, it's all worth it'.
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My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.
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I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.
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If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
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I thought I could surprise those guys and open up a margin and steal the race.
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I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent for me.
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Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
