Wole Soyinka Quotes

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

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• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  

  Samantha Barks
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• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Guy
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• If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parent
  • Lucky
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• We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Alive
  • Getting
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• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Theater
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• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
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• People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
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• If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Die
  • Alive

• I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Theater

• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
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• There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

  

  Drew Holcomb
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Alive

• Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Smile
  • Alive

• Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Death
  • Purpose

• In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.

  

  Elsa Morante
  • Charity
  • Alive
  • Chamber

• You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Work
  • Help
  • Tired

• One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  

  Robert Frost

• People don't listen to marketplace logic; they listen for meaning and purpose. Attention can't be bought. Before any interaction, ask yourself: 'How do I want to make people feel or act?' Put yourself in their shoes. The role of a leader is to create an experience that will inspire people to take action.

  

  Bill Jensen
  • Experience
  • Attention
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• Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Alive
  • Theater