Stage Quotes - Page 19

• Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

  Chris Cornell

  Awkward, Ham, World

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Apr 04, 2012

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• I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.

  Amy Winehouse

  School, Blow, Thinking

  "Notes of disdain". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2004.

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• When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Words You Speak, News

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• All the world's indeed a stage
  And we are merely players
  Performers and portrayers
  Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

  Neil Peart

  Player, World, Cages

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• Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

  Leontyne Price

  Beautiful, Thinking, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Letting Go, Song, Guitar

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• Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

  Annie Lennox

  Empowering, Feelings, Feminism

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• I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

  Peter Brook

  Space, Empty, I Can

  Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Glastonbury: Bruce Forsyth 'very emotional' after one of biggest gigs of his life" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2013.

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• On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Men, Thinking, Body

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• My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Mother, Stars, Regret

  "Bruce Forsyth: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Real, Trying, Steps

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• Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer.

  Henry Ford

  Cancer, Cells, Disease

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• I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

  Jonas Mekas

  Long, Together, Etc

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• No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.

  Barbara Rose

  Uplifting, Writing, Light

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• A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.

  Joe Meno

  Dream, Memories, Book

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• Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

  Daley Thompson

  Kids, Years, People

  Interview with Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

  Carly Simon

  Annie, Bigs

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• The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

  Rebecca Wells

  Pain, Love Is, Broken

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.

  French Montana

  Spring, Water, Bottles

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• I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

  Guy Davenport

  Puppets, Strings, Manipulate

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• In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

  Deborah Tall

  Nature, Vacation, Play

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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• You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Country, Iowa, Cities

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• I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Mom, Kids, Giving

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