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“To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.”

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Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.”

People Enough Home Force Church Race Break Army Theater Gentleman Southern Swimming Pool Troops Breaking Down Segregation Ladies And Gentlemen Swimming Pool

Author:Strom Thurmond

“When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.”

People Happens Film Levels Break Theater Independent Extraordinary Mainstream Break Through Independent Film

Author:Karen Allen

“I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.”

Thinking Needs Fall Break Theater Falling In Love

Author:Cillian Murphy

“Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."”

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Author:Julie Andrews

“I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.”

People Ifs Giving Littles Long Running Moving Three Next Bits Break Cutting Scene Little Bit Pages Theater Notes

Author:James McAvoy

“You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.”

Break Cutting Economic Policy Taxes Theater Wealthy Entitlement Economic Policy Tax Breaks

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.”

Mind Use Light Life Is Order Language Sound Break Darkness Theater Theatre Manifestation Scream Gestures Break Through Darkness To Light

Author:Antonin Artaud