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• When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Worry, Mouths

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• You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

  Larry Speakes

  News, Politics

  Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”

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• John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

  Ben Kingsley

  Song, Writing, London

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• The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.

  Henri Poincare

  Children, Moving, History

  "'La logique et l'intuition dans la science mathématique et dans l'enseignement' ('Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching')". Book by Henri Poincare, 1899.

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• American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Drama, Humorous

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• One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Good Night, Sports

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• Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Play, Conventional

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• It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Couple, Trying

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• In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

  Paul Davies

  War, Home, Moon

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• New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

  Patrice Pavis

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge

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• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Mistake, Drunk, Remember

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• From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

  Evander Holyfield

  Attention, World, Boxers

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• I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

  Marisa Tomei

  Film, Paychecks

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

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• I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Bigs, Councillors

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

  John Steinbeck

  Funeral, Festivals, Kind

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• People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

  Jenny Eclair

  Fall, People, Worry

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

  Ellen Barkin

  Issues, Film, Intimacy

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

  Joyce Cary

  Powerful, Imagination, Actors

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

  Moss Hart

  Careers, Advice, Actors

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

  Yukio Mishima

  Space, Childhood, Periods

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• On stage, I am in the dark.

  Maria Callas

  Dark

  "Auction to make hearts of diva's devotees soar" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

  Joan Cusack

  Kids, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

  Michael Caine

  Movie, Directors, Actors

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