"When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gail Ann Dorsey

#Art Quotes #Communication Quotes #Play Quotes

“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.”
“We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.”
“I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.”
“The truest self-respect is not to think of self.”
“To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.”
“In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.'”
“Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.”

Source : Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.35, Basic Books
“So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.”

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