"There are prophets, there are guides, and there……" — Peter Brook
"There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them."
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24 Quotes by Peter Brook
Peter Brook has 24 quotes on this site.
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A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.
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A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated…
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In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear…
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I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst…
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The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
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Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of…
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Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an…
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The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in…
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Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles,…
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The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
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It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead…
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More Argumentative Quotes
This quote is filed under Argumentative Quotes,
one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether,…
— Lord Byron
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
— Unknown Author
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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they…
— Robert Silverberg
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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about…
— John of Salisbury
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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be…
— Ryan Adams
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I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not…
— China Mieville
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At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and…
— David J. Lieberman
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Seal the door behind us. (Acheron) Um, not to be argumentative or anything, but didn’t we have to fight to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her…
— John C. Wright
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I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
— Peter Hammill
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Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported…
— George Fetherling
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