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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau
You
Youth
Light
Job
Rest
Poet
Clean
Take
Spontaneity
Polish
Freshness
Effect
Did
Same
Done
Literature
Commonplace
Produces
Originality
Originally
I studied structured improv, where you start from one position and see where it takes you. I like spontaneity. If you set yourself up to do the same thing every night, you may not connect as well to a different audience.
Jillian Hervey
You
Yourself
Same Thing
Every
See
Structured
Studied
Takes
Like
Spontaneity
Well
Audience
Up
Improv
Same
May
Where
Different
Connect
Thing
Start
Every Night
Night
Set
Position
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.
John Edgar Wideman
Art
You
Jazz
Find
Both
Spontaneity
Make
Cultural
Improvisation
African-American
Certain
Expresses
Basketball
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Own
Way
Find
Outline
Like
Spontaneity
Boxes
Surprise
Story
Useful
Element
Letting
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.
Lionel Shriver
Creativity
People
Feelings
Other
Keyboard
Hurting
About
Anguish
Unrelenting
Spontaneity
I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.
Lusia Strus
You
Balance
Control
Down
Other
Out
Must
See
Directly
Take
Emotionally
Maintain
Like
Spontaneity
How
How Far
Go
Surprise
Up
Craft
Script
Personally
Far
Then
Actor
Level
I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.
Martin Landau
Love
Me
Trust
Will
Hell
Out
Clarity
Kinds
See
Somehow
Through
Performance
Spontaneity
Well
How
Inevitability
Go
Shock
Get
Gets
Going
Lack
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Things
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel
You
Lose
Second-Rate
Composing
Rate
Ravel
Instead
Spontaneity
First-Rate
End
Up
Gershwin
Might
Your
Second
The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.
Mel B
Life
My Life
Live
Way
Spontaneity
Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Music
Best
Me
You
Peace
Classic
Structure
Gives
Davis
Spontaneity
Lot
Either
Miles
Miles Davis
Brings
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
Morena Baccarin
Happiness
Grief
Sense
Emotion
Between
Spontaneity
Dichotomy
Humans
I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.
Neneh Cherry
Me
Soul
Feeling
Big
Energy
About
Part
Spontaneity
Singer
Am
Amazingly
Trained
Big Part
Really
Who
The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.
Peter Beard
Family
Marriage
Odds
Overwhelming
Way
Unnatural
Torture
Brought
About
Institution
Spontaneity
Because
Sake
Been
Very
Stacked
Children
Against
Should
Organized
Biologically
Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.
Regis Philbin
Me
Everything
Net
Spontaneity
Without
Working
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
Rem Koolhaas
Shopping
Air
Air Conditioning
Once
Scale
More
Had
Almost
Spontaneity
Most
Also
Advertising
Became
Scientific
Limited
Been
Surprising
Conditioning
Predictable
Manipulated
Much
Appeared
Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?
Ricky Reed
You
Big
Born
Inspiration
Week
Songs
Studio
Days
Spontaneity
Becomes
How
Question
Five
Going
Create
Pop
Pop Songs
I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
Sam Shepard
You
Writing
Long
Way
Adjustment
Kinds
Along
Spontaneity
Make
Still
Very
Then
Much
Certain
Believer
Eventually
Play
I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.
Sandra Brown
Book
Try
Will
Reading
Before
Every
Hopefully
Something
Never
Spontaneity
Readers
Always
Used
Keep
Incorporate
I was very young when 'The Carol Burnett Show' came out, but that kind of comedy and the spontaneity of her, I think it really deeply affected me within just the joy of performance.
Sandra Oh
Me
Joy
Comedy
Young
Think
Carol
Carol Burnett
Out
Kind
Performance
Spontaneity
Within
Came
Affected
Very
Just
Burnett
Really
Show
Deeply
Her
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
Simon Hoggart
Dinner
Party
Dinner Party
Imperial
Spontaneity
Formal
Japanese
Washington
Funeral
Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.
Stan Laurel
Timing
Sight
Would
Scenes
Had
Arise
Spontaneity
Occasionally
Shooting
Required
Planned
Mechanics
I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.
Stevie Jackson
Together
People
Hopefully
Record
About
Like
Spontaneity
Got
Hit
Hit Record
Get
Just
Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.
Suki Waterhouse
Love
Family
Photographing
Taking
Pictures
Spontaneity
Lot
Friends
Friends And Family
Them
Means
Cool
Images
I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.
Timothee Chalamet
Member
Exactly
Exactly What
Scene
Like
Spontaneity
Know
Most
Because
Audience
Audience Member
Truthful
Going
Interesting
Moments
I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.
Titus Welliver
Teacher
Good
You
Gift
Too Much
Lose
Sense
Think
Too
Kind
Born
Taken
Study
Spontaneity
Gets
Native
Good Actors
Much
Acting
Your
Actor
Away
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
Tony Curtis
Vegas
Like
Spontaneity
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