Judith Butler Quotes
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
Quotes to Explore
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
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Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
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I've been really anxious to get back on the football field. The main thing now is its over with.
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We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
