Keith Johnstone Quotes

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

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• I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • World
  • Theatre
  • Seeing

• Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
  • Watch

• In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Different
  • Two
  • Unity

• I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Hollywood

• I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Starting

• I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Children
  • Father
  • Wife

• I bat righty.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Bat

• 'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • People
  • Star
  • Direction

• No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Choice
  • Word
  • Will

• They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. Will they lie, or bluff, or panic, or wilt? Or will they continue to function with some modicum of competence and integrity?

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Trying
  • Integrity

• I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.

  

  Lucy Larcom

• Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Up

• I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Time
  • Money
  • Free

• I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

  

  James Caan
  • People
  • Brain

• Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Effort

• I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Up

• I believe in working with your morning brain - you have your coffee, and then maybe you'll start thinking about the grand plan and what's going to happen in the next arc, and then you write for a while, and then you get really dreamy, and over the course of the day or in the middle of the night, something comes, and you just throw it in!

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Perfect

• When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.

  

  Charles Bock
  • College

• When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

  

  Mike Rutherford Mike and the Mechanics
  • Thinking

• As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Struggle
  • Inspiration
  • Irish

• If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

  

  Keith Johnstone
  • People
  • Fear
  • Needs