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For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas. -- Brian Setzer
I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy. -- Alice Temperley
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? -- Kenneth Rexroth
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged. -- Stephen Sondheim
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. -- Bitsie Tulloch
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. -- Tom Stoppard
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. -- Thomas B. Griffith
In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert. -- Annie Jacobsen
When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films. -- Anupam Kher
A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real. -- D. J. MacHale
I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy. -- Jessica Lynch
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. -- David Mamet
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. -- Terry Zwigoff
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. -- Bob Dylan
The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural. -- Zola Jesus
A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. -- Lisa Randall
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. -- Wole Soyinka
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. -- Alan Huffman
Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it. -- Anupam Kher
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. -- Camille Paglia
I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around. -- Johnny Vegas
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. -- Jerry Saltz
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations. -- Ira Glass
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation. -- Matt Ross
I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends. -- Jonas Mekas
There's nothing worse than a poorly staged house. -- Dani Levy
The world is a drama, staged in a dream -- Guru Nanak
When you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged. -- Nils Frahm
I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them. -- Marina Abramovic
Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera. -- Roger Ballen
Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage. -- Harold Prince
If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare. -- William Monahan
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. -- Thomas B. Griffith
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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy. -- Terence McKenna
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged. -- Bassam Tibi
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives. -- Michel Chossudovsky
...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white. -- Alan Watts
Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only. -- Philip Roth
One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast. -- Justine Larbalestier
The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona. -- Al Gore

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