Don Altman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

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