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Jiang Wen Quotes

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: chinese
Birth: January 5, 1963

Topics

Construction Theatre Key Bad Irony

The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree onto a lawnmower below, the edges of this 'thing' have a certain serendipity.

Jessica Stockholder

Beautiful Tree Color Falling Paint

To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.

Creative Writing Saying Silly Say

If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.

Michael Hastings

Me Game Someone You Fair Tell

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

Life Work Path Myself Me My Life

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

Stephen Sondheim

Me Writing Song Actor Ask Line

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

Eyes Time Me Think Down Want

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

Travel Understanding Country First

I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he is craggy, worn, awesomely impressive and unique, a living four-star tourist attraction that, in the formulaic words of the Guide Michelin, 'vaut le voyage.'

Words Unique Grand Canyon Living

It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.

Space Better Place Understand Mean

And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

Work People Me Way University Where

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Winning Texas Coaching Career Three

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Love Yourself Without Commit Means

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