Stage Quotes - Page 23

• There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

  Thalia

  Fun, People, Anxiety

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• It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Frozen, World

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Empowerment, Enlightenment

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• If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mind, Enlightened

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• The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

  Ezra Pound

  Grace, Age, Modern

  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley "E. P. Ode Pour l'Election de Son Sepulchre" l. 21 (1920)

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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• I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Water, Plant

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

  Lewis Thomas

  Real, Years, Accomplishment

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• The psychic perception is a feeling as opposed to a thinking. Not a feeling that is engendered through emotion necessarily. It comes from the psychic plane of intuition, which is another stage of our mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Psychics, Feelings

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• There is something very fragile about the beginning stages of psychic development. Eventually, one becomes very strong and the cushioning isn't as necessary. It's still logical because we live in an abrasive world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Psychics, Development

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• From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

  Judy Woodruff

  Perspective, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Dream, People, Magic

  Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.

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• If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage.

  Shane Black

  Character, Interesting, Common Experience

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.

  Todd Rundgren

  Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

  Patrick Stewart

  Training, Acting, Larger Than Life

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.

  Patrick Stewart

  Home, Dangerous World, Years

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

  Tove Styrke

  Song, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.

  Charlie Day

  Rocks, Littles, Disappointing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Guitar, Practice

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

  Sebastian Stan

  Jobs, Night, Trying

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Blow, People, Stopping

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Trying, Littles

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Thinking, Way, Persona

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

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• I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Years, Acting, Stage Actors

  "Conversations with a Cult (Film) Director Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Eric Ravenscraft, gawker.com. August 19, 2010.

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