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Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing. -- Charles Spurgeon
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You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't. -- Clarke Peters
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
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
In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door. -- Carol Burnett
The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning. -- Eleanor Catton
Life isn't a dress rehearsal -- Kerry Packer
Thought is action in rehearsal. -- William Zinsser
Life is not a dress rehearsal. -- Rose Tremain
The truth needs so little rehearsal. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song. -- Charles Spurgeon
The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor. -- Wayne Rogers
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity. -- Gary Zukav
Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. -- Judith Malina
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? -- Milan Kundera
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies. -- Rush Limbaugh
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence. -- Hal Higdon
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does. -- Jim Jarmusch
I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. -- Patrice Leconte
All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. -- Donald Pleasence
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that. -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal. -- Eddie Izzard
I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it. -- William Petersen
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. -- Harvey Fierstein
People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative. -- Jennifer Beals
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters. -- Kim Cattrall
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal. -- Will Chase
We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal. -- Benny Green
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked. -- Maggie Grace
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh. -- Yael Stone
When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on. -- Michael Richards
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge. -- Trevor Nunn
Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.' -- Denis Leary
Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody. -- Philip Baker Hall
There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time. -- Michael Emerson
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. -- Bono
Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. -- Keira Knightley
One Tree Hill' was my first television experience, so naturally I was nervous initially. There is no rehearsal, you get your script a few days ahead, and you work. I was also the youngest actor, 13, on set at that time, but it was amazing to be able to 'learn the ropes' with such a supportive group of people. -- Kelsey Chow
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. -- Bryn Terfel
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path. -- John Burdett
I don't like rehearsal. -- Charlize Theron
This is no dress rehearsal. -- Phil McGraw
Love is the rehearsal of Paradise. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death. -- Adyashanti
Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling. -- Drake
I really miss the rehearsal process of theater. -- Kurtwood Smith
Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it. -- Mike Watt
it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself. -- Jennifer Stone
After all - life is not a dress rehearsal! -- Richard Branson
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life. -- Bill Murray
The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another. -- George Clooney
During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse. -- Julie Benz
I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal. -- Anna Friel
The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. -- Jack Lemmon
Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal? -- Jaco Pastorius
There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films. -- Maria Bello
Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night. -- Peter J. Daniels
The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me. -- Jane Krakowski
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. -- William Hurt
There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience. -- Zachary Quinto
If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script. -- Nina Arianda
Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction. -- Ulric Neisser
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. -- Idries Shah
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. -- Peter Brook
The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution. -- Augusto Boal
Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be. -- Marcia Gay Harden
Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time! -- Denise Austin
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. -- Nora Ephron
I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal! -- Kate Winslet
The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later. -- Jeff Dunham
I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors. -- Pearl Cleage
For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage. -- David Jeremiah
Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. -- Idries Shah
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything. -- Robert Glasper
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything. -- Robert Glasper
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. -- Vik Sahay
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. -- John Banville
I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal. -- Kaniehtiio Horn
Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. -- Judd Nelson
Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it. -- Fletcher Knebel
I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. -- Brad Dourif
In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material. -- Bruce McCulloch
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. -- Peter Ustinov
I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time. -- Christine Lahti
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story. -- Damian Lewis
Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose. -- Andrew Wommack
It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio. -- Jim Messina
It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon. -- Michael Ritchie
People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it. -- Jane Seymour
For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script. -- Peter Stone
I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room. -- Scott Ellis
I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there. -- Laurie Metcalf
The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process. -- Allison Janney
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. -- William Hurt
There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines. -- Keeley Hawes
I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of. -- Ewan McGregor
I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be. -- Scott Speedman
But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period. -- Debbie Allen
If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. -- Dylan Moran
Learn to say, "I don't know the answer." It could be the beginning of a very good day's rehearsal. -- Sam Mendes
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out -- William Hurt
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. -- William Hurt
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience. -- Judd Nelson
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience -- Judd Nelson
Work is your life, it's not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days. -- Mario Testino
At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like. -- Thomas Beecham
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it. -- Tony Hale
The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character. -- Adam Garcia
In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast. -- James Wolk
If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball. -- Phife Dawg

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