"Sometimes it can get overburdened with nuance - the actors find all sorts of different spins on the lines that can lose simplicity and directness. They all become fond of their extra stresses and the audience are going, "Just give me the line simply, what did you mean?" You have to ward against that."

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Gregory Doran

#Stress Quotes #Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Health will improve almost at once when worrying ends.”
“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.”
“It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”

Source : M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not gonna be able to grow a beard. I've realized my limitations as a human.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I get mad when I'm upset, so to prevent myself from doing anything stupid, I force myself to sleep on whatever issue I'm upset about. Almost always, when I've woken up, I feel much better.”
“Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.”
“And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.”
“For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.”

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