"A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself."

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Source : G. Wilson Knight (2014). “Shakespearian Production”, p.69, Routledge

G. Wilson Knight

#Waiting Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Looks Quotes

“For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that â€” situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy â€” Jamaica has no reason to be poor,”
“Suppose several boys are moving along a particular road and one boy falls into a drain, his dress and his body, become dirty. Other people, passers-by, will laugh at him, but when the boy's father sees his boy in that condition, what is he to do? Will he laugh at his own son? No! What will he do?”
“There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.”
“The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,”
“You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.”
“My work comes first, reasons for it follow.”
“I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.”
“The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.”

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