#stage

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#courage #enemies #hostage #luxury #courage

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#bunch #huge #i #i love #imagination

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#hypothetical #life #origin #referred #rna

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#always #backstage #being #done #excitement

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#been #before #bring #first #hasn

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. ↗

— David Antin

#character #else #hard #hostage #mouth

The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#approaches #artists #beatles #better #classic

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#always #been #gonna #had #i

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #center #different #different ways #drag

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#cannot #controllable #dimensions #economic forces #forces