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“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.”
Source : "Questions for John Lahr" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.
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“Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..”
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“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.”
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“I've reinvented myself every year since 1998, and my style's still changing. It's grittier now. I always gotta try something new. I've grown up. Then I was rapping; now I do music, I write albums. But my distinctive voice and style, people still can't catch it. They're still asking me, "What were you saying on that song?".”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.”
Source : "The Friendship of Art".
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“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”
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“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.”
Source : "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.
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“As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.”
Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.