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've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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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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I got through college.
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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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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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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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I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.
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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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It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.
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The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.
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This may just be me, but I feel like everyone's dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.
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It's no accident that the fastest growing states with the best economies are all led by Republican governors.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
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None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.