Swoosie Kurtz Quotes
To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
Quotes to Explore
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
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I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.
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You cannot play naive if you're not.
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My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.
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It's fun to move people musically.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
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In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
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There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.
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It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.
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Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.
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The current use of the National Guard is wrong... These are men who did not sign up to go occupy foreign nations.
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
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The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."
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To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
