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theatre
«Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.»
Author: Gail Godwin
| About:
Actors and acting,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
fourth, fourths, one-fourth, preparation, teaching, theatre, three-fourths
«Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
cinema, contrast, dramatic, dramatic art, enact, enacted, enacting, every night, individually, ritual, singly, theatre, The Theatre, transport, transports
«A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.»
«A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend.»
Author: Lisa Edmondson
| About:
Talent
| Keywords:
horn, legend, talented, theatre, trumpeter, trumpeters
«A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
admission, admission price, babysitter, dinner, film, theatre, The Theatre
«For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.»
«Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
analogous, cause of death, disaster, dread, increases, panic, psychologically, theatre, trampled
«After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what yo»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aloft, commiserate, commiserates, commiserating, condone, condoned, condones, condoning, novels, sighs, sits, theatre, watches
«(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Academics, alienate, industrial, Learning to, pursuits, ranks, theatre
«As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, bent, bent on, enters, idly, theatre, The Stage
