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Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

“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”

Persons Ideas Country America Found Felt Cities Stage Offers Transformation Romanticism Iowa Calcutta

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“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.”

Giving Kids Actors Four Stage Mom Married Shots Decided My Mom Modeling Smiley Stepdads

Author:Charlotte Arnold

“You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.”

Moving Cities Stage Bigger Radio Filling Bigger Than Life

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.”

Knows Years Made Happens Running Five Stage Fronts Happenings Rivers Dry Five Years Sweat Pouring Microphones

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.”

Kind Different Bigs Stage Love You Clubs Intimate Kinds Of Love

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.”

People Giving Actors Advice Stage Specialty

Author:Vagit Alekperov

“If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Actors Worst Stage Convinced Profession Awful Uncomfortable Abyss Disgrace

Author:Stephen Dillane

“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”

Want Firsts Littles Two Character Night Actors Prayer Laughing Five Minutes Stage Demand Starting Stakes Broadway Five Minutes Exit Starting Out

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.”

People Looks Persons Different Wife Stage My Wife Singers Parks Different Peoples

Author:PSY

“Success does not come all at once; even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.”

Years Doe Stage Masters

Book:The Education of a Speculator

Source: The Education of a Speculator

“The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.”

Should Has Beens Ends Force Stage Eras Borders Armed Forces New Era

Author:Abdullah Ocalan

“First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.”

Firsts Stills Wanted House Fun Grows Born Animal Cities Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Kings Reruns Second City

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.”

People Ifs Book Shows Bigs Jobs Guy Stage New York Flying Producers Agents Managers Chicago

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

“There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.”

Acting Doubt Stage Training No Doubt Stage Acting

Author:Denis Lavant

“On the national stage and in the neighborhoods of New York, Senator Hillary Clinton has repeatedly put her expertise and power behind solutions that make the lives of the American people safer and more prosperous.”

People Behinds Stage New York Solutions Clinton Neighborhood Senators Prosperous Expertise

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.”

People Ifs Shows Film Clear Stage Empty Editors Stink Manipulative

Author:D. B. Sweeney

“Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.”

Way Walks Stage Planets Dresses Harlem Swag

Author:Teyana

“I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.”

Stage Comfortable

Author:Teyana

“My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.”

Running Young Actors Advice Stage Huge Theatre About Yourself Invaluable Keep Running Young Actors

Author:Yul Vazquez

“Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.”

Thinking Men Play Causes Acting Boys Stage He Man Huge Commitment Yeah Frontline

Author:Yul Vazquez

“Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.”

“I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.”

People Stage Tears Uncomfortable

Author:Martha Wainwright

“With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.”

Lasts Century Stage Drama Decades Opening Twentieth Century

Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

“The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.”

Ifs Body Easy Decision Gone Stage Let Me Knees Retiring One For Me

Author:Jo Durie

“I feel energized walking off stage.”

Feels Stage Walking

Author:Marketa Irglova

“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Writing Wells Long Two Happens Waiting Acting Crazy Stage Months Impatient Two Months

Author:Erland Josephson

“Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!”

Ifs Giving Trying Important Film Form Acting Stage Possibility Stage Acting

Author:Erland Josephson

“I’d rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I’m getting into and what it’s going to be like for our life together.”

Knows Together Our Lives Stage Husband My Husband Life Together

Author:Tamera Mowry

“Put me on stage and I'm happy.”

Stage

Author:Mick Ralphs

“Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.”

Thinking Different Might Beautiful Stage Court Theatre Sensations Royal

Author:Sophie Thompson

“I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.”

Want Stills Soul Helping Artist Known Records Stage Glory Train Helping Others Producers Songwriters Solo Crave Spotlight Soul Train

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.”

Stage Fame Trembling Fright Stage Fright

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The stock actor is a stage calamity”

Actors Stage Calamity

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.”

People Thinking Men Wells Doe Eye Stage He Man Safe Loud Applause Discretion Relish Vehement

Book:Plays of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays of William Shakespeare

“Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.”

Happens Eye Guy Christ Stage Worship Glory Filled Guitar

Author:Matt Papa

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”

“In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.”

Said Ends Fighting Stage Proud Needed Aviation Spokes Chicks Affectionate Air Power Airpower

Author:Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”

Thinking Knows Artist Actors Names Acting Pieces Stage Who You Are Theatre

Author:Clinton D. Powell

“Even in Heaven, the most perfect City in the World, there are going to be different levels, different classes, different stages, some very high, some very low.”

World Different Heaven Perfect Levels Cities Class Stage Lows Heavenly Different Levels Cities In The World

Author:David Berg

“There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.”

Trying Three Stage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.”

Stage Periods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The third stage is no thought.”

Stage Thirds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.”

Firsts Meditation Stage Conscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.”

World Long Moving Meditation Stage Awareness This World Periods Long Periods Of Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.”

Ends Meditation Stage Higher Thirds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.”

World Two Christ Lord Stage Creation Environmental Shoes Scripture Separation

Author:Johannes Scotus Eriugena

“Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.”

Lasts Our Lives Stage Personality Adults Mirrors Rebirth Incarnation Mirror Image

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.”

Decision Stage Finals Endless Outcomes Rebirth Progression Completion

Author:Frederick Lenz

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