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.
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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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I looked at sky this morning and realized summer is almost gone which really made me sad because it doesn't seem as though its been here at all.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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.
