Sarah Caldwell Quotes

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Sarah Caldwell

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• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Song
  • Space
  • Emotional

• You can't get emotional about your work.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • You
  • Emotional

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
  • Character
  • Book

• My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

  

  Gallant
  • Live
  • Want
  • Emotional

• The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Emotional
  • Forgotten

• I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Picture

• I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Loved
  • Show
  • Musical

• Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Trust
  • Deep
  • Emotional

• Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Control
  • Emotional
  • Advice

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Great
  • Long
  • Emotional

• A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Time
  • May
  • Emotional

• I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • World
  • Long
  • Done

• ',Alive' stems from emotional growth and contentment. Before writing the song, I was swimming in a pool of hurt, guilt and spiritual discomfort. Instead of drowning, I decided to embrace these feelings and express gratitude for the lessons learned. With this new-found sense of life, I am stronger and happier than ever.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Emotional
  • Learned
  • Embrace

• I went to Poland for the Warsaw Film Festival, and it was quite an intense experience. I didn't think it would be, but it did feel quite emotional to go back to this place I'd heard so much about.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Experience
  • Emotional

• Si nec blanda satis, nec erit tibi comis amanti,Perfer et obdura: postmodo mitis erit.Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus:Frangis, si vires experiere tuas.Obsequio tranantur aquae: nec vincere possisFlumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates.

  

  Ovid

• Woods in the predawn darkness, the silence only broken by the sloshing of his flask.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Darkness
  • Woods
  • Predawn

• One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

  

  Lyn Nofziger
  • Important
  • Country
  • Freedom

• The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

  

  Sarah Caldwell
  • Emotional
  • Musical