#magi

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#been #course #done #first #good

I loved the world of imagination. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#imagination #loved #world

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is. ↗

— Julian Sands

#descendants #easily #finest #forgotten #gene

Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#every #first #i #imagine #looking

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

#been #excited #fugitive #gladly #happiness

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ↗

— George Santayana

#dignity #dominates #end #exact #exact measure

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#magic #magic wand #our #problems #resolve

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #imagine #involvement #kind #myself

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#aware #been #being #complex #disaster