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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them. -- Bruce Beresford
I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist. -- Ike Turner
2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table. -- David Cameron
I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own. -- Carl Barks
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. -- Wes Anderson
Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive. -- Mario Andretti
Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance. -- John Sculley
Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house. -- Barbara Corcoran
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. -- George Santayana
Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it. -- Jeanette Winterson
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. -- Placido Domingo
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene. -- Al Pacino
Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy -- Jean Baudrillard
No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging. -- Henry David Thoreau
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it. -- Saul Bellow
If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability. -- Justine Kurland
There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage. -- Laurence Sterne
Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes. -- Kate Winslet
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality. -- Larry Sultan
I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality. -- Laurie Simmons
What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire. -- Ben Brantley
Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money. -- Kevin Kwan
I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups. -- Alan Taylor
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. -- Teju Cole
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. -- Tom Stoppard
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. -- Robert Wilson
As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one. -- Rudy Vallee
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. -- Maria Mitchell
I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but that's much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together. -- Roger Deakins
Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must! -- Barbara Corcoran
So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound. -- Ramin Bahrani
I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components. -- Christopher Meledandri
[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are. -- Steven Soderbergh

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