Category Archives: Quotes

Any road will take you there

Saturday, March 28, 2009 – 9:40 am

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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If you make a mistake, do it twice

Friday, September 5, 2008 – 3:09 pm

If you make a mistake, do it twice.
Jazz Saying

This is one of those truths that finds it’s way into every art form. It’s true for Jazz and it’s true for improvisation.

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Raving Paranoids

Friday, June 20, 2008 – 3:17 pm

Nothing we say to each other is innocent of emotional manipulation. Everything that we do on stage, is to effect each other, in some way and if we notice, very carefully, how those swine we are working with are trying to get to us and get at us — Sometimes I suggest we perform on [...]

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Monopoly is a Game

Thursday, May 8, 2008 – 2:33 pm

Found this today and have to say, It’s pretty brilliant. Sorry was not the most fun game because it relied too heavily on that big plastic half dome thing. The game itself was boring as shit.
Monopoly is a game.
We use the pattern of moving pieces around the board to play that game.
That pattern in and [...]

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I do something to you which makes you do something to me

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 – 2:02 pm

Simple, I do something to you which makes you do something to me, etc. that’s it.
Peter Gwinn on “what is the game of the scene?”

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Treat your audience like poets and geniuses

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 – 4:27 pm

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
Del Close

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