Culture Quote by John Simon Download Open image “Dinner theater is anti-culture.” — John Simon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Dinner Theater Theatre
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now. — Ted Shackelford Copy Share Image
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I think it's… — Mac Wellman Copy Share Image
You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do… — James Beard Copy Share Image
There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Theater is such an absurd thing. It should be made fun of. But it's also produced some of the most beautiful things in the… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. — John Simon Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy… — John Simon Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur,… — John Simon Copy Share Image
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what? — John Simon Copy Share Image
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much… — John Simon Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
