"Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood."

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Kevin Kline

#Play Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Technique Quotes

“That's so cute! They have birdbaths in the church!”
“All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need...”
“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.”
“When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.”
“Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.”
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”

Source : Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing
“When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything. It appears as if something comes from outside your mind, but actually it is only the waves of your mind, and if you are not bothered by the waves, gradually they will become calmer and calmer.”
“The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.”

Source : Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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