Alexander Polinsky famous quotes

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A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism
-- Alexander Polinsky

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I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.
The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism
I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
MÃ©ret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, or similar Dadaist hangouts in Basel, where you could normally get away with these things, you were truly a provocateur.
My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Alexander Polinsky famous quotes

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