#act

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony. ↗

— George Carey

#any #holy #i #i see #matrimony

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are. ↗

— John Zorn

#control #cues #device #everyone #group

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#actually #almost #anomaly #artists #because

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#actually #am #appears #completely #deal

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four. ↗

— Robert Carlyle

#all day #day #every #four #go

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#insight #more #nothing #terrible #than

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #doubt #ended #kind #whatever

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#does #eloquent #fact #good #horrid

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#end #man #noblest #though #thought