Keith Johnstone Quotes
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I'm a real romantic.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
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I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.
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My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
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Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.
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There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
