"We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE"

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Source : Deena Metzger (1981). “The woman who slept with men to take the war out of them ; & Tree”

Richard Avedon

#Way Quotes #Performances Quotes

“Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.”
“Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.”
“If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.”
“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.”

Source : "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.
“He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.”
“My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.”
“I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.”
“If you're praying, you're not worrying, and if you're worrying, you're not praying!”

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