GE Paulus Quotes
Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.
Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.
The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.
Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
Sometimes you feel like you are on top of the world, and at other times it feels like the world is on top of you.
Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
In the end, we must remember that no one can become what they need to be by remaining where the are. Until there is motion nothing can change.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!It only looked good from the bottom.
Once you are a butterfly, you can really love – thekind of love that makes anew life. It’s better than allthe hugging caterpillars cando.
