A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
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Related You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We were rough around the edges there, not where we need to be. AL BORGES She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Anything remotely close will be enough. I'm looking forward to noticing the sense of wonder in the e... DOUGLAS NIMMO We are kind of rough around the edges right now. CARL STEWART I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and ... HANS-ULRICH OBRIST I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful. KATE WINSLET Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tin... SENATOR JOHN KERRY Decisions that are made around certain services being considered by the inquiry may have a substanti... TIM SMART I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life eac... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. DOUG LARSON If in life you feel like a stone tossed about in stormy sea, remember that the rough and jagged edge... TRAVIS J HEDRICK It gave me something to do where I couldn't (before), being from a little bit of a rough neighborhoo... GERALD COLEMAN I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with... YANN MARTEL What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. OCTAVIO PAZ I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. SUN TZU Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Think twice or more before you start doing something for someone, it may be a good thing what you wa... NISHI DE SILVA A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ... SOTONYE ANGA It's really disappointing and it's disheartening. We've had a lot of talk about turning things aroun... SCHUYLER SOKOLOW When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes litera... RAYMOND CHANDLER Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is... V.C. KING We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather ... BRIAN ENO the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is,... CHARLES OSGOOD The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in anoth... TERRY EAGLETON When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I... MARTIN DONOVAN With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the ha... DREW GODDARD I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of... KEVIN CHAMBERLIN There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the... FREDERICK BUECHNER While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is,... CHARLES OSGOOD Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere... JACK BOWMAN The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name... STUART NADLER I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and... EILEEN CADDY The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a sym... ALFRED KORZYBSKI I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovere... RAYMOND JOSEPH TELLER I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is,... CHARLES OSGOOD Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the reveali... STUDS TERKEL Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true. ORRIN WOODWARD We ran into some pitching troubles. This is our sixth game here and we're a little rough around the ... BRIAN GRUBER Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation ... SIR RICHARD STEELE My sense is that the [European Commission]'s grievances or the things that they would like fixed are... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Some of these people may come from a long history of animosity for one another, whether it be from t... DOUG GAY Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We seem to be coming together as a team. We got off to a rough start, our schedule was a little diff... JIM BOWDEN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK When you go through difficult times, make sure you pass the test. Don’t be stubborn and hardheaded... JOEL OSTEEN One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of m... DAVE CHAPPELLE Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Ultimately, behavioral targeting drives audience. Optimization is about driving performance. With be... BRAD BENDER your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying... HARMONY KORINE And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th... J.K. ROWLING
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