Marianne Elliott Quotes
I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
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I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
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My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.
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I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.
