Constantin Stanislavski Quotes
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
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I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
