"Naming a baby is an act of poetry,……" — Richard Eyre

"Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives."

— Richard Eyre

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21 Quotes by Richard Eyre

Richard Eyre has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's…
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's…
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in…
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable…
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the…
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be…
Balance is the enemy of art.
The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history -…
I resent all organised religions.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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