"Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now."

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Source : "Does Nothing Come from Nothing?". Ernest Jones Lecture at The Edward Lewis Theatre, London, ciret-transdisciplinarity.org. June 13, 1994.

Peter Brook

#Theatre Quotes

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
“I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.”
“TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.”
“Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.”

Source : Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.598, Pan Macmillan
“More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.”
“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”

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