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.
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.
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People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
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I'm more of a Tea Party person.
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The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.
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In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
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Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.
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I'm pretty hot, right? Very hot, if I may say so myself. Don't you feel the sex I'm radiating?
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As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for 48 years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work – but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!
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Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.
