#eater

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#best time #difficult #during #exciting #i

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#appear #fetch #go #greater #instructions

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#consider #considered #else #going #got

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#achieved #anything #drama #feel #feelings

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#after #american #army #classes #dance

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#chance #change #change the world #feelings #going

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#because #came #club #dance #days

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard. ↗

— William Kirby

#automatically #believe #brings #cultural #economic

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side. ↗

— William Kirby

#concerns #economic #greater #political #side

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#got #i #interested #really #theater