Estelle Parsons quote: "I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater."

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what the...
ESTELLE PARSONS

When I see what I want, I do it.
ESTELLE PARSONS

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.
ESTELLE PARSONS

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
ESTELLE PARSONS

I have never been interested in specific roles.
ESTELLE PARSONS

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
ESTELLE PARSONS

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.
ESTELLE PARSONS

Acting is very start and stop.
ESTELLE PARSONS

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
ESTELLE PARSONS

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go ...
ESTELLE PARSONS

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation'...
ESTELLE PARSONS

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
ESTELLE PARSONS

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
ESTELLE PARSONS

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in...
ESTELLE PARSONS

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and...
ESTELLE PARSONS

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for a...
ESTELLE PARSONS

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another professio...
ESTELLE PARSONS

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuf...
ESTELLE PARSONS

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.
ESTELLE PARSONS

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
ESTELLE PARSONS

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
ESTELLE PARSONS

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
ESTELLE PARSONS

Bob, you do not know what they're gonna do. Some people are so disturbed by that dance, they can't l...
ESTELLE PARSONS

I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
ESTELLE

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
ESTELLE

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying ...
ESTELLE

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
ESTELLE

Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.
ESTELLE

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.
ESTELLE

I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties.
ESTELLE

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong a...
ESTELLE

People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at t...
ESTELLE

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian,...
ESTELLE

I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to b...
ESTELLE

The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kep...
ESTELLE

The people at my label are always endorsing what I say. They say, 'You see the truth, so speak i...
ESTELLE

I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a b...
ESTELLE

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone w...
ESTELLE

Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don't act like you're ...
ESTELLE

I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom...
ESTELLE

I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when ...
ESTELLE

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole ...
ESTELLE

I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?'...
ESTELLE

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.
ESTELLE

I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great s...
ESTELLE

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This...
ESTELLE

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I&#...
ESTELLE

People want to say something negative before they say something good.
ESTELLE

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the note...
ESTELLE

You can be sexy, but respect yourself and make sure you get that respect.
ESTELLE

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
ESTELLE

Most of my thinking is done at night.
ESTELLE

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
ESTELLE

Walking round the Champs-Elysees late at night is the greatest time.
ESTELLE

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.
ESTELLE

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get...
ESTELLE

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also in...
ESTELLE

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
ESTELLE

. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much gr...
ESTELLE RAMEY

When it comes to you, it's simple : As long as you don't give up, I won't either.
ESTELLE MASKAME

No te rindas.
ESTELLE MASKAME

I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.
ESTELLE MASKAME

Dark haired guys are so, so much better.
ESTELLE MASKAME

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?
ESTELLE MASKAME

I already miss him and he hasn't even left yet.
ESTELLE MASKAME

Forgiveness shouldn't be expected : It should be earned.
ESTELLE MASKAME

I really wish you hadn't said sorry for it. Because apologizing means regretting.
ESTELLE MASKAME

sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.
ESTELLE GETTY

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
ESTELLE MORRIS

Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endea...
ESTELLE RAMEY

I want to give producers more financial security.
ESTELLE MORRIS

If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications...
ESTELLE MORRIS

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes...
ESTELLE MORRIS

Brian Watson is our three-point specialist.
DERRICK ESTELLE

There has been such a lack of black genealogy.
ESTELLE PERRAULT

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best pa...
ESTELLE MORRIS

When you consider the incomes of professional sports figures compared with anyone else -- it's clear...
ESTELLE RAMEY

Are you a Feminist? (addressing a group of professional military officers) Oh...WRONG question. I sh...
ESTELLE RAMEY

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist w...
ESTELLE RAMEY

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
ESTELLE RAMEY

. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much grea...
ESTELLE RAMEY

My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in you...
ESTELLE WINWOOD

She is my head captain and she was my most valuable player. I can't say enough about Whitney. She's ...
ESTELLE LASHBROOK

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public...
ESTELLE MORRIS

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by...
ESTELLE MORRIS

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
ESTELLE GETTY

The only time we lose is when we go to tournaments or to out-of-town teams.
DERRICK ESTELLE

That's the main thing. If you can get a full ride (college scholarship) because of your skills and a...
DERRICK ESTELLE

Earl does what Earl does. Score, rebound and intimidate.
DERRICK ESTELLE

Our big men, they clean it up.
DERRICK ESTELLE

They've been together since the second grade.
DERRICK ESTELLE

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from ...
ESTELLE MORRIS

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressur...
ESTELLE MORRIS

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just h...
ESTELLE LAURE

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there w...
ESTELLE MORRIS

He was devoted to the job he had to do. He never took any credit. You don't see people like that muc...
ESTELLE PERRAULT

You knew everybody on the streets, both black and white.
ESTELLE PERRAULT

How we hated when they tore down the beautiful Spanish Colonial-style courthouse. It had palm trees ...
ESTELLE PERRAULT

It was quite illegal. Public bodies can't give resources to private bodies.
ESTELLE PERRAULT

We had two hotels then - the James and the Waldorf.
ESTELLE PERRAULT

The laws were different here. Blacks had a lot more freedom to own businesses and property. Free peo...
ESTELLE PERRAULT

We used to have just one little shelf devoted to local history. We have tremendous new resources now...
ESTELLE PERRAULT

We have more than doubled our holdings.
ESTELLE PERRAULT

The leaks have stopped. It's beautifully air conditioned now.
ESTELLE PERRAULT

In society, we worry about children who are off the rails, about five-year-olds bullying other child...
ESTELLE MORRIS

Schools already invest in computers for pupils and have more IT equipment than ever before. But chil...
ESTELLE MORRIS

To achieve the maximum impact we need a wide range of organisations to participate and make a contri...
ESTELLE MORRIS

I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made awa...
ESTELLE MORRIS

The dedication she has and the will she has to play are great. She keeps us up constantly. She needs...
ESTELLE LASHBROOK

She's my front line. Those go with the front two for Hartland being leaders on the team. I look forw...
ESTELLE LASHBROOK

I told (her), obviously jokingly, that if she didn't put my sister on the team I'd quit. I think it'...
ESTELLE JOHNSON

It was kind of hard for us to have Collins in the first game because they have pretty much the same ...
ESTELLE JOHNSON

It's been fun playing on the same team together. I know my dad has always wanted two of his kids to ...
ESTELLE JOHNSON

We played every day, like five times a day back there. We probably had to repair it like 500 times. ...
ESTELLE JOHNSON

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything ...
ESTELLE GETTY

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By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Dep...
ESTELLE MORRIS

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were...
ESTELLE MORRIS

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to ...
ESTELLE MORRIS

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.
ESTELLE MORRIS

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
ESTELLE MORRIS

This government has always said increasing pay is something for something.
ESTELLE MORRIS

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government h...
ESTELLE MORRIS

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless...
ESTELLE MORRIS

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film...
ESTELLE MORRIS

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
ESTELLE MORRIS

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a patt...
ESTELLE MORRIS

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliv...
ESTELLE MORRIS

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support...
ESTELLE MORRIS

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.
ESTELLE GETTY

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important p...
ESTELLE GETTY

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everyth...
ESTELLE GETTY

You can do anything you want to do.
ESTELLE GETTY

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducib...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were...
TALCOTT PARSONS

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this develop...
TALCOTT PARSONS

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretati...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they di...
TALCOTT PARSONS

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of s...
TALCOTT PARSONS

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from...
TALCOTT PARSONS

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from ...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical...
TALCOTT PARSONS

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it shoul...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a dive...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problem...
TALCOTT PARSONS

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very pro...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
TALCOTT PARSONS

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowl...
TALCOTT PARSONS

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
TALCOTT PARSONS

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the sys...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questio...
TALCOTT PARSONS

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
TALCOTT PARSONS

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from ...
TALCOTT PARSONS

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empiri...
TALCOTT PARSONS

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativit...
TALCOTT PARSONS

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and faili...
TALCOTT PARSONS

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having co...
TALCOTT PARSONS

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
BOB PARSONS

My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
KARYN PARSONS

When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around...
KARYN PARSONS

I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child w...
KARYN PARSONS

The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only...
KARYN PARSONS

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
NATHAN PARSONS

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
NATHAN PARSONS

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - y...
NATHAN PARSONS

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.
NATHAN PARSONS

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of...
NATHAN PARSONS

I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own...
NATHAN PARSONS

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened...
NATHAN PARSONS

I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed ...
NATHAN PARSONS

Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hopi...
NATHAN PARSONS

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as...
NATHAN PARSONS

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an e...
TONY PARSONS

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
ALAN PARSONS

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.
ALAN PARSONS

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't t...
ALAN PARSONS

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics o...
ALAN PARSONS

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was t...
ALAN PARSONS

I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the backgro...
ALAN PARSONS

I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was on...
ALAN PARSONS

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
ALAN PARSONS

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic...
ALAN PARSONS

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutual...
TALCOTT PARSONS

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
WENDELL PARSONS

However, I would like to take this opportunity to stress that our strategy remains unchanged - to cr...
ALEX PARSONS

I never thought it would work (this way) with me. I just wanted the opportunity to play. This heavil...
ALEX PARSONS

After the Nike camp, I got offered by Kentucky and then Utah and Arizona came by (during spring prac...
ALEX PARSONS

That Nike camp, that's where everybody looks at you. They sell you to everybody out there. You do al...
ALEX PARSONS

I could tell he was following me around. But it was definitely fun.
ALEX PARSONS

"Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?"
LUCY PARSONS

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the sys...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me...
JIM PARSONS

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them remove...
TONY PARSONS

Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are ro...
TONY PARSONS

This being in Michigan really gives it added significance, because this is where it all started. The...
BENNY PARSONS

Last year, we went down to the final lap of the final race. I just don't see how [the system] can ge...
BENNY PARSONS

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The punishment did not fit the crime.
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BENNY PARSONS

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

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Estelle Parsons

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

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