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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil. -- Nina Hagen
[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands. -- Lotte Lenya
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed. -- Alain Badiou
I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition. -- Nina Hagen
I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht. -- Justin Kirk
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. -- David Antin
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams. -- Katy Mixon
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material. -- Orlando Bloom
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not. -- Philip Auslander
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad. -- Marianne Faithfull
I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht. -- Justin Kirk
I've never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht's second wife], I saw all the Berlin actors. It was an amazing time, very exciting early 1960s. -- John Hurt
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe. -- Nicholas Royle
Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht ) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them. -- Eugene Ionesco

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