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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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 -
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 -
As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
Quavo Migos -
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet -
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar -
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Nancy Reagan
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.
Rachael Price -
The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
Ayumi Hamasaki -
Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.
Kamala Markandaya -
When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
Sam Smith -
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Peter Ustinov
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We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.
Tilda Swinton -
I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.
Tracy Lawrence -
Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.
Oprah Winfrey -
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