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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.
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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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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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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.
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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?
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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.
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
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He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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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.
