Keith Johnstone Quotes
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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I grow old on my bitterness.
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An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.
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Che non pur per cittadi e per castella,Ma per tuguri ancora e per feniliSpesso si trovan gli uomini gentili.
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Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
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Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
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An actor has to act irrespective of the camera or location.
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I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.
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Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
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One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
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We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.
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Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life.
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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
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I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.
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Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
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It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.
