Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
Quotes to Explore
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
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I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.
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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
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To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
