Keith Johnstone Quotes

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

Keith Johnstone

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• This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

  

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  • Wash

• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
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• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
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  • American
  • Healthy

• 'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

  

  Gary Ross
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• I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

  

  O. Henry
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  • Service
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• I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Seems
  • Where

• People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Normal
  • Follow

• The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Understand
  • Expect

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  

  Irving Howe
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• Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Accepting
  • Become
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• I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

  

  Andreas Gursky
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  • Persons
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• Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.

  

  Brian Tracy
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  • Success
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• Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

  

  Rachel Carson
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  • Lost
  • Vision

• What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Normal

• Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • School
  • Worry
  • Waiting

• My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Parents
  • Grandmother
  • Kitchen

• Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • Scientist

• Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

  

  Keith Johnstone
  • Persons
  • Accepting
  • Seems