Estelle Parsons Quotes

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Estelle Parsons

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• I Believe
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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
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• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
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• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
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• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Good
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• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Time
  • You
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• In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

  

  Karen Abbott
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  • Power
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• Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

  

  Yukio Mishima

• My job is to make sure we keep performing.

  

  Mats Sundin
  • Job

• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren,Since o'er shady groves they hover,And with leaves and flowers do coverThe friendless bodies of unburied men.

  

  John Webster
  • Men

• I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Proud
  • Stupid
  • Stuff

• I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Wall
  • Communism
  • Soviet

• I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.

  

  Rachael Price
  • Thinking
  • Aspect
  • Enthusiastic

• Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Laughter

• No one's dream job involves a kiosk.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Involves

• Wenn du einen vielbetretenen Weg lange gehst, so gehst du ihn endlich allein.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Audience
  • Laughter
  • I Believe