Robert Edmond Jones famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.
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Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
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There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.
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We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.
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The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.
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The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.
-- Robert Edmond Jones
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Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment
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Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
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Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.
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Eating is an environmental act.
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
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I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
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I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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As a kid, I had a background in theater.
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