By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
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FOX What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I... DANA DAVIS I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who cham... IAN MCKELLEN I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Hele... BLYTHE DANNER The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three... SHERMAN ALEXIE When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ... HANS MATHESON A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back whe... PAUL PIERCE I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is... ILAN STAVANS First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used bef... STEPHEN GREENBLATT Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion. 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The part that's n... ASHLEY OLSEN Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend ... ISRAEL HOROVITZ When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one d... CHARLIE BEWLEY I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It'... CATHERINE TATE I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don... IMELDA STAUNTON One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. W... WILL MCDONOUGH
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Had Rome been growing up... ALFRED DOMETT Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. --ALFRED MARSHALL This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon... ALFRED ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ALFRED ADLER Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled ... ALFRED ADLER In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who s... ALFRED ADLER It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom... ALFRED ADLER War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetra... ALFRED ADLER It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relations... ALFRED ADLER The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of t... ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma... ALFRED ADLER Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who... ALFRED ADLER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. ALFRED ADLER I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning ALFRED ADLER A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma... ALFRED ADLER There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ALFRED ADLER It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ALFRED ADLER All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, an... ALFRED ADLER I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,
With vassals and serfs at my side,
And of all who assem... ALFRED BUNN We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ALFRED JARRY Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music... ALFRED JARRY If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfil... ALFRED ADLER Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert. ALFRED MONTAPERT In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a sym... ALFRED KORZYBSKI …a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy... ALFRED KORZYBSKI We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosop... ALFRED KORZYBSKI Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) W... ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. ALFRED KORZYBSKI …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, ... ALFRED KORZYBSKI Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor... ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original... ALFRED JARRY It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. ALFRED ADLER There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ... ALFRED KORZYBSKI Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t... ALFRED HITCHCOCK This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v... ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died.
[Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.] ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'. ALFRED BRENDEL