"Reality' is a word with many meanings."

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Source : Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Peter Brook

#Reality Quotes

“What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.”
“Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.”
“If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.”
“The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.”
“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
“My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.”

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