"I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally."

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Source : "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

John Eliot

#Jobs Quotes #Real Quotes #Butterfly Quotes

“To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.”
“You can't get back what you've lost, What's important now is "What is it that you still have. â€”Jimbei”
“What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.”

Source : Stephen Spender (1978). “The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people 1933-1970”, Random House Inc
“My father was a great actor.”
“Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.”
“If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.”
“Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power to be happier by changing your habits. Taking "response-ability": responding to all the events in your life in a way that supports your happiness.”
“Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.”

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