Natalie Zemon Davis Quotes
In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
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I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.
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We’re playing pretty damn well these days, and that’s fuel right there.
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In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.
