Hugh Prather Quotes

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

Hugh Prather

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 23, 1938 - November 15, 2010

Topics

CreativePresentExerciseOverTurn

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

Jim Brown

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I wanted to make a late-night-type show that happened to be in the morning for moms. Bravo was more interested in a blend of my books 'Momzillas' and 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut,' which is a collection of nonfiction essays.

Jill Kargman

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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

John Bolton

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I can't hold a tune at all.

Robert Stigwood

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What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Max Beckmann

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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Steve Earle

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Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBurney and Theatre de Complicite, was, and continues to be, hugely important to me. To my mind, these are artists who are forging new languages of performance and storytelling, and their constant reinvention is very inspiring.

Sophie Hunter

WorkMindMeTheatrePerformance

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

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I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Johnny Knoxville

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Anybody can relate to anyone on 'Glee' at some point in their life.

Dot Jones

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I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

Christen Press

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'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.

Wiz Khalifa

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