Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
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Related Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. ELAINE DUNDY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a d... MARISSA MAYER I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning ... JOSHUA COHEN Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You&... RON PERLMAN The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are spea... AZIZ ANSARI You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagin... MARK TWAIN Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elabo... 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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. MARGUERITE DURAS Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. ELAINE DUNDY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The camera can even capture text and graphics as group 4, the small TIFF protocol used for faxing. I... JEFF LENGYEL You put them on various household items such as a door or refrigerator so if your mom didn't open th... DAN BAUER Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Philosophy can not be attained from text on a page... it comes from with the soul. RUSS KOLIBAS I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I wo... MAEVE BINCHY Lots of the time, the music came to me before the text, so I had to find the text that matched the m... BRIAN CROSBY Can someone please kidnap the 2 blue holly ticks on whatsapp that shows text has been read.... Am co... LINUS GITARI I work in a more movement based and object oriented theatre. For me, (using pre-written text) was an... CATHIA PAGOTTO While no member state has got everything it argued for, the text before you is balanced, strong and ... JAN ELIASSON No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson ... PETER MCWILLIAMS On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagi... STEPHEN LANG I think color is important. The subject matter expresses the message, the imagery ... expresses the ... JANEEN KOCONIS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclo... WALLACE STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu... WALLACE STEVENS If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read ... DENNIS MILLER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That... ANTONIN SCALIA A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau... BRET EASTON ELLIS Speech-to-text is not perfect, but by providing as much result as possible, you can assess whether i... ALEX LAATS As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. JOHN GREEN What makes the show so special is that they don't have any elaborate props on the stage. Just about ... DON HUGHES I think justice Scalia is really the gold standard of what a justice should be. Somebody, regardless... RON JOHNSON What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disc... WALLACE STEVENS The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but most... CHRIS CORNELL How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. The text messaging really adds up. We had a tremendous bill from text messaging before we even knew ... ANNE MITCHELL I think music can be many things to many people. I think it should exist on many levels. I think tha... DAVE HOLLAND There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sen... PATRICK J. BUCHANAN There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sen... PATRICK BUCHANAN I can't tell you how many times I would call and text my boss, Vince McMahon, on the set of '... JOHN CENA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and wh... ADAM D'ANGELO There were a lot of public concerns expressed about what might be in the data protection text, but t... BARBARA WEISEL Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Yeah, you lose equipment, You lose the stage. You lose everything else. But the fact of the matter i... CHAD MURRAY Yeah, you lose equipment, You lose the stage. You lose everything else. But the fact of the matter i... CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY “Life is like a rhythm pending on the music that you create
As the flow slows down, you start to s... MUSTAFA SAHIN A picture is worth a thousand words, a text is worth your imagination. SEAN CROSBY In literature, the reader standing at the threshold of the end of a book harbors no illusion that th... JOHN M. KELLER If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it... OSCAR WILDE A text message can lead to a date, which can lead to a kiss, and a wonderful night together. Will y... ANONYMOUS This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of... SARAH DESSEN Music is the melody whose text is the world. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recrea... DANIEL CRAIG With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ... ERIC WHITACRE If I am going to be a writer, earning a living in the era of digital text, I need to understand wher... CORY DOCTOROW You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We c... STEVE HARVEY You can look on your computer, see who is calling, decide to take the call or transfer the call to a... HAL EPSTEIN The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the co... D'ANGELO The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I reviewed the textbook and I liked what I saw. I saw an academic text that steers clear of being a ... ELLA BELL Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally diffe... JAKE EPSTEIN You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every nigh... BLYTHE DANNER Select for you keyboard, just like doing a text message, so everybody who does text messaging on the... JAY PETERANETZ Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous! FAKE CINNA Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actual... ROBERT CRUMB A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. S... EARTHA KITT Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; ... ALISON JACKSON Text results for a search are fine, but sometimes you need to use a map to orient yourself. DEEP NISHAR You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the ins... ANTHONY HOPKINS PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. SUZANNE FARRELL Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's... EWEN BREMNER We are committed to marrying text and dance. We have both a full dance piece and a play on the stage... LIAM STEEL The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text th... WALTER BENJAMIN If you don't have a code of ethics or moral principles that you live by no matter what the consequen... MAURICE W. LINDSAY What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'... ANTONIN SCALIA Trust might be the only solution. NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT There's nothing to it, ... The actual text of the [CAFTA] agreement is what's binding and the text o... LORI WALLACH I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER It was a weird feeling for me this weekend, but with those circumstances it's something you have to ... MAXIME FORTUNUS The minute the text-messaging icon went up on my Web site, teens were talking about it on my message... MEG CABOT
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