"You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do."

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Source : "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

Stephen Daldry

#Theatre Quotes #Excess Quotes #Youth Quotes

“The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.”
“I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.”
“Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
“Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.”
“I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being.”
“I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.”
“Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.”

Source : 1969 Der Teil und das Ganze, translated by A J Pomerans as Physics and Beyond (1971).
“It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that.”

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