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Robert Dessaix
"I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary basis. This was very much as a amateur, doing things like mopping the floor, handling props, setting up scenery, etc. I never acted, and don't think I'm an actor, but those years in the theatre taught me a lot about professional theatre." --
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Robert Dessaix
#Thinking Quotes
#Years Quotes
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“Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get to the end of the poem and I still haven't figured anything out, but at least I have a new poem out of it.”
“I am haunted by waters.”
“I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.”
“The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.”
“I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and armchair approaches. Some ways of forming beliefs are better than others, and epistemologists of all stripes, I believe, have a legitimate interest in addressing the issue of what makes some of these ways better than others.”
“...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
“The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.”
Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.4
“Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.”