Joan Littlewood quotes
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“Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.”
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“If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.”
-- Joan LittlewoodSource : Joan Littlewood (2016). “Joan's Book: The Autobiography of Joan Littlewood”, p.484, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what's happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.”
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“The men who go out the scientists who go out, they have so much fun on the way that when they get there well it's done. So they're looking for another thing. You see the objective may remain the same - the search - but you must get lost on the way, get stupid to my mind, this is what you do in theatre; a team of people go out to look for something, they find, maybe, something else.”
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“There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.”
-- Joan Littlewood -
“Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what's happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.”
-- Joan Littlewood
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Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1988.
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Source : Alec Guinness (1997). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Viking Press
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Source : Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.
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“Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.”
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