"The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots."

--

Source : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

Alfred Jarry

#Unique Quotes #Artist Quotes #Rehearsal Quotes

“I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.”
“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.110, Vintage
“Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.”
“So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.”
“Hate cannot destroy hate, but love can and does. Not the soft and negative thing that has carried the name and misrepresented the emotion, but love that suffers all things and is kind, love that accepts responsibility, love that marches, love that suffers, love that bleeds and dies for a great cause - but to rise again”
“The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.”
“I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.”

You may also like: