Constantin Stanislavski Quotes
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.Constantin Stanislavski
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
Karl Schroeder -
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham -
I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
Vanessa Bayer -
I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
Kaia Gerber -
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
Gary Shteyngart -
I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
Walter Hagen
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
Zoe Saldana -
I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
Tammy Baldwin -
My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
Laura Mvula -
As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan -
My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
Waris Ahluwalia -
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
Karen Armstrong -
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke -
I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
Ursula Andress -
I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.
Jack McBrayer -
I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
L'Wren Scott -
Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.
Irrfan Khan
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I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.
Paula Garces -
I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.
Peter Scolari -
I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
Kabir Bedi -
On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
Rami Malek -
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.
Richard Feynman -
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Constantin Stanislavski