#alive

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#acquaintance #alive #comes #confess #finding

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#approach #certainly #different #different points #director

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#alive #everyone #expensive #i #lawyers

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#grave #his #over #roosevelt #today

The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin. ↗

— Pierre Cardin

#alive #being #only #pierre #still

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue. ↗

— Robert Towne

#dialogue #entirely #faces #fact #important

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#been #force #forms #hypothesis #keep

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#always #apprehend #beautiful #beautifully #feel

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#furious #death