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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."


"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."


"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."


"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
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