“ I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes. ”
- Nora Roberts- Copy
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“ You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. ”
- Lucinda Basset- Copy
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“ But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ I shot my leg during a rehearsal! Thank God they were blanks. ”
- Ricardo Montalban- Copy
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“ Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action. ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
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“ If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons. ”
- Bill Dixon- Copy
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“ The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. ”
- Alfred Jarry- Copy
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“ Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
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“ I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen. ”
- Charles A. Garfield- Copy
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“ I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge, too; I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife — he was specially picked. ”
- Alphonse Karr- Copy
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“ Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ”
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison- Copy
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“ Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room. ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
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“ Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal… whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own. ”
- Amy Irving- Copy
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“ We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time. ”
- Ray Brown- Copy
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“ We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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