Quotes About Performed

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

The truth was that nobody ever arrived without invitation, and all that tidying and wiping was performed out of what struck me as deep social atavism

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

They wouldn't understand. In the desert, they were endlessly desert. Growing things performed no green ballet for them.

she assumed the charge of their education, and performed the duties of an instructress as none, save a mother, is capable of.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

This play was first published in 1923, many years after Trollope's death and it was most likely never performed. It serves a basis for the popular Palliser novel Can You Forgive Her?

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.

Only once then, it happened that my father tended the Grand Duchesses alone and performed nurses' duties for them.

Samuel L. Lewis] The hypocrisy of perfumed words only adds to the criminality of unwise acts.

If you're not prepared to perform the experiment yourself, at least think about the implications. Imagine that you've modified the way in which you're computed – and imagine what the consequences would be. A gedanken experiment – is that too much to ask for? In a sense, that's all I ever performed myself.

Working with a Hollywood unit was absolutely delightful. I felt like an actor. I was treated like one. I performed like one.

Miracles are healing because they supply a lack; they are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.

Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.