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chekhov drama half likely school taught television week
When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.' James Callis
chekhov date original time versions
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. Tom Stoppard
chekhov nowadays people reduced understood
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'
chekhov effects singular work
It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style. Clive Sinclair
chekhov five
My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years. Peter Capaldi
chekhov walt
I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.
chekhov plays regional spent
I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing. Zeljko Ivanek
chekhov country ethic hardy life
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. Jane Gardam
chekhov directors love plays
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.
nowadays people price value
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
reduced stopped
We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely. Mike Adams
reduced saying test
We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty. Greg Knudsen
reduced
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid. Siri Hustvedt
reduced
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
reduced spending
I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that. Roy Blunt
reduced
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day. Madonna Ciccone
reduced
I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded. Mitt Romney
reduced reverse time yesterday
The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.
reduced single
If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.
understood havens
We fear only what we haven’t understood. Byron Katie
understood known
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. Arthur Helps
understood van
I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. Nigel Hamilton
understood
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart. Stephen Covey
understood
On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads. Jessica Sanchez
understood known
Music was known and understood before words were spoken. Charles Darwin
understood
My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood. Elie Wiesel
understood
To understand and be understood is to be free. Daniel Johnston
understood whole universe
Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole... David Bohm