"We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it."

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Source : "World Theater Day Message, Geneva, Switzerland" by Augusto Boal, March 27, 2009.

Augusto Boal

#Citizens Quotes #Actors Quotes

“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”
“Climate change is the sine qua non of continued civilization. We either solve this, or it's lights out. Turning into a collective like that is so much more aligned with how humans live and think and change.”
“Never allow yourself to break, and always remain unbreakable.”
“When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.”
“This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.”
“It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.”

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“The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.”
“I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.”

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