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• Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

  James Levine

  Orchestra, Delusion, Conductor

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Historical, Criticism, Forgotten

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• I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

  Erykah Badu

  Beautiful, Moving, Holiday

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• If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

  Norman Thomas

  Flags, Want, Symbolic

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• Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Real, Believe, Character

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• If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

  Susan Sullivan

  Casts, Persons, Intonation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

  Rita Dove

  Way, Using Words, Pacing

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• Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

  Georges Duhamel

  Humble, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

  James Levine

  Problem, Bigs, Conductor

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• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  Malcolm Arnold

  Inspiring, Communication, People

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• Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

  Helen Hayes

  Self, Theatre, Actors

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.13, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

  Ernest Holmes

  Men, Impossible, Universe

  Ernest Holmes (2006). “The Hidden Power of the Bible”, p.78, Penguin

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• Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Time, Kindness, Fire

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.58, Conari Press

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• What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

  Marcel Marceau

  Attitude, Essence, Important

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• My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

  Toots Thielemans

  Sunday, Parent, Musician

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• International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

  Rebecca West

  Imperfect, International, Clumsy

  "The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews".

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• You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

  Paul Hogan

  Nice, Night, Flames

  Remarks at the 59th Academy Awards (On Oscar Acceptance Etiquette), delivered 30 March 1987, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

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• No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Eye, Hands

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• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

  Theodor Adorno

  Technology, Men, Brutal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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• The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Nature, Travel, Mountain

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• Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Men, Able, Remember

  "Sufism in Britain". Book by Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, A&C Black, p. 64, 2013.

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• Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reason, Mankind, Picturesque

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1990). “Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

  Roland Barthes

  Long, Theatre, Needs

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• There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

  James Levine

  Orchestra

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