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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Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.
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My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.
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Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights.
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None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
