Workshops Quotes - Page 5

• Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.

  Max Horkheimer

  Children, Reality, Men

  "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1982.

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• Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you're an author, you can tell whether you're really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.

  Max Barry

  Sex, Writing, Character

  "Hand Me My Y-Chromosome". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 08, 2005.

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• The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

  Kelly Link

  Editors, Panic, Sparks

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Cities, House, World

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

  Stan Dale

  Sweet, Fear, Hands

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• I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.

  Elaine Equi

  Rap, Wine, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  School, Exercise, Two

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice. But I think you could also put it a different way. You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, America, Today

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art...drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days

  Cennino Cennini

  Art, Holiday, Years

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• The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Practice, People, Listening

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand people out there that have some relationship to what we do.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Years, People, Retreat

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Dancer, Singing, Acting

  Source: grigwaretalkstheatre.blogspot.com

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• I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

  Jodi Kantor

  Diversity, Corporate

  "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, gpbnews.org. January 6, 2017.

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• When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Worry, People

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to instal democracies. First it was topple them, now it's instal them, right? And this whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility - it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In that sense, it's all part of the same machine.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Taken, Responsibility

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Even if we do vote, we should just spend less time and intellectual energy on our choices and keep our eye on the ball.

  Arundhati Roy

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• [Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."

  Warren MacKenzie

  Years, Mind, Ceramics

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Criminals, Reform, Citizens

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1871). “The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future”

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• When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Challenges, Clay

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

  Beverley Nichols

  Soul, Body, Sake

  Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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• Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.

  K. M. Soehnlein

  Teacher, Analysis, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Coffee, Iowa

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• If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.

  Ray Walston

  People, Twenties, Scene

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