Quotes About Interpretation

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth?

Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the reason for their power?

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow. But

Todas las historias tienen muchas versiones distintas. La versión elegida nos revela más acerca del narrador que acerca de la historia.

situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.

mother?" Yudhisthir asked. "Haven't our scriptures

But some things can't be told that way, I know that now. They can only be approached stealthily, from behind, like wild birds. And even then they catch your scent and take flight before you throw your net of words over them.

The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about.

What's he like?" "Thoughtful. Interesting. Compassionate." "These are English words for ugly.

This was always my trouble when I was learning to speak your language. Every word can defend itself. Just when you go to grab it, it can split into two separate meanings so the understanding closes on empty air. I admire you people. You are like sorcerers and you have made your language as safe as your money.

lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.

You could only be sad if you let yourself join the dots, if you allowed the scatter of moments in their totality to have some kind of a downward trend that you might be dumb enough to extrapolate.

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

The longer I wait the more reasons I can think of why it means something other than what I thought it meant when I first read it.

What I hope we can learn is to be aware of how our beliefs color what we see." I wanted to tell Brittain that Lemry was trying

our points of view—the way we perceive things—are inextricably linked to our beliefs. If

And he didn't draw dog turds in the house style either. He drew the flies circling above too big, and gave them wings. Me, I preferred a few tiny little dots above a turd. That made it look less disgusting, but smellier at the same time.

Even if everything between us was 80 percent in my own mind, I said, 20 percent had to come from you. You disagreed; insisted everything that passed between us was my own fabrication.

Because she does not express herself in theoretical language, no one expects too much from her and she is used to tripping out on layers of complexity in total silence.

Art supercedes what's personal.

Qui parle, et pourquoi, voilà la seule question.

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.