“Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWellsEnoughMagicStageParticularOrdinaryScientistTricksObjectivesMortalsPerformersArrogantPsychicsFooledScrutinyPhony Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded) Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.” WayYearsActorsFoundVoiceNaturalSimpleFiveStageOrdinaryHollywoodStudiosFive YearsGesturesEliminating Author:Walter Huston
“I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.” LittlesIdeasDoneBigsRoomsStageNew YorkOrdinaryTheaterTinyTiedLots Of MoneyOrdinary Life Author:Garry Hynes
“People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.” PeopleWantGuyNextDoorsStagePlanetsOrdinaryOrdinary Life Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.” PeopleWorldWantHas BeensDifferentStatesGovernmentMightPoliticalProcessInterestHoursFiveInfluenceStageOrdinaryVoteCongressPatternsIndianCorporateCorporationsVotingPhenomenonParliamentOrdinary PeopleDifferent DirectionsCorporate WorldInverted Author:Vandana Shiva
“I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsSometimesInterestHoursStageOrdinaryOddsWho You KnowCenter Stage Author:Theresa May
“Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.” PeopleShouldEnoughActorsActingStageOughtOrdinaryTheatreDaily LifeLarger Than Life Author:Ninon de L'Enclos
“I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.” RunningBitsLosesStagePersonalityCreatingOrdinaryFlightSensationsWrapsSanctuaryOrdinary LifeLosing Yourself Author:Florence Welch
“One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.” FeelsEndsPlayMomentsHomeHouseSleepSpaceCommonOur LivesOne ThingStageSafeSummerOrdinarySacredFamiliarJust OneLocationRest And Peace Author:Katrina Kenison