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“I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.”

Ifs Thinking World Done Enough Young Our Lives Trouble Stage Particular Drama Mouths Spread My Time Foam Rant

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.”

Thinking Mind Littles Two Ideas Reality Lying Process Attitude Stage Taught Degrees Behavior Surface Accepted Allowing Transformed Furniture

Author:Charles Stanley

“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.”

“A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.”

Thinking Men Reason Stage Coaches Reasoning Pace Telegraph

Author:Mary Edwards Walker

“CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Shows Remember Stage Fronts Band Conversation First Time Clubs Bars Scream Hardcore Craziest Wild Places Cbgb

Author:Dave Grohl

“People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.”

People Thinking Way Self Stage Complaining Obsessed Arrogant Synonym Self Contained Self Obsessed

Author:Bo Burnham

“What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States.”

Thinking Humans Country States Facts Law United United States Stage Development Constitution Worthy Protection Human Life Constitution Of The United States

Author:Marco Rubio

“I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.”

Thinking Firsts School Actors Born Comedy Stage Drama Essentials Tragedy Theater Schemes

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.”

Thinking Children Two Play Shows School Film Hate Three Sports Middle Stage Son Depends Pressure Entertainment Performing Kicks Nerves Appearing School Plays Three Sons

Author:Piers Morgan

“I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.”

Thinking Stage Beats Sitting Trade Hitting Basements

Author:Kid Ink

“If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public.”

Ifs Thinking Way Might Care Certain Winning Loses Imagination Chance Known Stage Taste Competition Individuality Conform Good Way

Author:George Li

“The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Jobs Remember Night Next Memories Watches Five Childhood Minutes Stage Ready Goes On Opening Make Sense Queens Mum Spain Schizophrenic Vomiting Opening Night

Author:Javier Bardem

“I remember thinking as I was doing the jokes for the first time, "If I can hear that very clearly, I'm not hearing laughter." It just became deafening, this buzzing noise. I mean, it was brutal. It was really terrible. Then I remember thinking, "At least nobody important, or anyone who I really respect, saw that." And then literally right when I went off the stage, Jerry Seinfeld got up and went on. So I was like, "Oh great. Seinfeld saw me bomb." On the other hand, I thought, "At least no one will be thinking of me anymore. They'll just be focusing on him."”

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Author:Seth Rogen

“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.”

“Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Self Sometimes Turns Wonder Stage Prepared Finding Yourself

Author:J. P. Donleavy

“I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more.”

Thinking Wells Talking Stage Couple Jokes Sitting Twenties Dollars Desks Bucks Retard

Author:Larry David

“I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I do think about the specific people in the audience, how it's hard for them to get up and go to the bathroom, how they chose not to do other things that night and have turned off their phones and everything. So for that reason, I think it's necessary to mix it up and talk to the audience.”

People Thinking Hard Reason Night Audience Stage Phones Get Up More Time Performers Really Great Bathroom Turned Off

Author:Demetri Martin

“I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.”

Thinking Kind Together Individual Stuff Results Happened Stage Bigger Witness Collectives Alchemy

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Hard Done Film Term Stage Scripts Executives Conventional

Author:George Lucas

“I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.”

Thinking Trying Enjoy Audience Stage Draws Add Enjoyed

Author:Bo Burnham

“People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Kids School Stars Situation Team Stage Drama Truth Is Sitting Like Me Factories Going Out Doing Nothing Arses

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.”

People Ifs Thinking World Art Self Care Stage Don't Care Destructive Loathing Self Loathing Self Destructive Misinterpreted Misanthropic

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells I Can Shows Sleep Stage Battle Get Real Energetic Hyper Can't Sleep Drained I Can't Sleep

Author:Charlyne Yi

“I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.”

Thinking Made Today Careers Stage Regret Who I Am No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Kurupt

“You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.”

Thinking Artist Stage Rapper Translate Phenomenal Technicians Emcee

Author:Joell Ortiz

“I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important.”

People Thinking Feels Important Helping Able Voice Stage Perspective Financial Excited Helping People

Author:Arlene Dickinson

“I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.”

People Thinking Knows Years Rooms Known Stage Listening Aim Stranger Comedian Pubs

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Has Beens Book Film Guy Worry Stage Events Series Irony Sincere Unfortunate Could Have Been Brad Unfortunate Events Series Of Unfortunate Events

Author:Daniel Handler

“It's not quite the Tom Jones show, but yes, I've had undergarments. If I get a bra chucked on stage I'll hold it up so the audience can decide what to think. And I'll usually blame a guy for doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Guy Audience Stage Blame Toms Bras Undergarments

Author:Michael Bolton

“I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Want Dream Stage Possibility Someday Broadway

Author:Sara Bareilles

“I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer that I am. I think that, for me, being stationary and just sort of singing the songs seems to be the most connected and authentic expression for me on stage.”

Thinking Feels Kind Seems Song Stage Expression Singing Connected Manage Performers Stationary

Author:Sara Bareilles

“I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me.”

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Author:Sara Bareilles

“I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.”

Thinking Felt Stage Football International Retiring

Author:Kenny Cunningham

“I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.”

People Ifs Thinking Imagine Stage Imagine That Troops Our Troops

Author:Elijah Wood

“I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.”

Thinking Play Bigs Fans Stage

Author:Ed Westwick

“I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.”

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Author:Jeanine Tesori

“I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.”

Thinking Years Kind Different Behinds Doors Stage Movement Years Ago Climate March Now And Then Urgency Closed Doors Lobbying Behind Closed Doors

Author:Avi Lewis

“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.”

People Thinking Feels Film Rooms Alive Stage Example Masters Like You Realms Just Being Temperature Hitchcock Sensational

Author:Tilda Swinton

“It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. I had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play.”

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Author:Sam Shepard

“I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience member's thoughts about it, or better yet, their feelings, will be different. Moreover, images contain so much information that one can see things that the next person won't notice. As a result, people will surely think about Coda in dissimilar ways.”

People Thinking Way Want Persons Different Feelings Next Results Common Audience Stage Information Members Choreography Common Things

Author:Martine Epoque

“I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.”

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Author:Susan Howe

“I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.”

Thinking Needs Kids Speak Parent Happened Stage Goes On Profound Psychological Deficit

Author:W. Kamau Bell

“I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.”

Thinking Character Voice Term Novel Stage Elements Developing Persona Comedic Literary Terms

Author:Ted Alexandro

“I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.”

Thinking Kind States Moments Spirit Certain Stage Fronts Crowds Loud Performing Performers Improvisation Clicks Exaggerated Transcendental Weird Things Obnoxious Trance

Author:Wayne White

“If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.”

Ifs Thinking Stage Concerned Dresses Accessories

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research on heart disease has really been based on men, and needs to be updated with research on women - even very early-stage research is done using male rats!”

Thinking Men Needs Heart Done Dies Stage Disease Research Doctors Males Come Up Speed Rats Heart Disease

Author:Laura Bush

“I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long.”

Thinking Knows Long Might Would Be Running Film Process Deals Morning Laughing Know How Stage Difficulty Eight Crafts Clock Spontaneity Precision Chuckles

Author:Colin Firth

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