"People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you."

-- Dave Chappelle

#Wall Quotes #People Quotes #Standing Quotes

“My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.”
“Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.”
“As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.”
“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
“I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.”
“I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.”
“God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1956). “The Red Priest”, London, Methuen
“Nothing human surprises me.”

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