#forming

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist! ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#beauty #creativity #editor #everyone #help

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot! ↗

— Leo Kottke

#audience #because #connect #curve #fall

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts. ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#go #high #high school #i #normal

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#high #hold #i #performing #pleasure

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience. ↗

— Jack Wild

#buzz #like #live #live audience #performing

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#challenging #far #fascinated #horticulture #i

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#be happy #get #going #happy #i

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#go #had #humour #i #i can

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. ↗

— Frederik L. Schodt

#culture #history #japan #performing-arts #art

So many ruins bear witness to good intentions which went astray, good intentions unenlightened by any glimmer of wisdom. To bring religion to the people is a fine and necessary undertaking, but this is not a situation in which the proposed end can be said to justify the means. The further people have drifted from the truth, the greater is the temptation to water down the truth, glossing over its less palatable aspects and, in short, allowing a policy of compromise to become one of adulteration. In this way it is hoped that the common man – if he can be found – will be encouraged to find a small corner in his busy life for religion without having to change his ways or to grapple with disturbing thoughts. It is a forlorn hope. Standing, as it were, at the pavement’s edge with his tray of goods, the priest reduces the price until he is offering his wares for nothing: divine judgement is a myth, hell a wicked superstition, prayer less important than decent behaviour, and God himself dispensable in the last resort; and still the passers-by go their way, sorry over having to ignore such a nice man but with more important matters demanding their attention. And yet these matters with which they are most urgently concerned are, for so many of them, quicksands in which they feel themselves trapped. Had they been offered a real alternative, a rock firm-planted from the beginning of time, they might have been prepared to pay a high price. ↗

— Charles Le Gai Eaton

#religion #society #business