Alistair Beaton quotes

“It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong.Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear!”
-- Alistair Beaton

Source : Alistair Beaton (2001). “The Little Book of Management Bollocks”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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“Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.”
-- Alistair Beaton

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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“Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.”
-- Alistair Beaton

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.”

“We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.”

“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”

“Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.”

Source : "Adam Rayner Talks Tyrant, Joining the Show, Playing an Arab Character, Shocking Moments, Shooting the Pilot in Morocco, and His Character’s Motives". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2014.

“They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.”

“When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.”

“Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”