Edward Gordon Craig Quotes
I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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I have Bright's disease and he has mine.
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I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
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Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?
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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
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The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
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I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.
