"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

Difference, Energy, Theatre

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"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."

Leon Askin, Austrian Actor

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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."

Nicholas Meyer, American Writer

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"The difference with me is that I did inhale."

Cilla Black, British Musician

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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."

Maria Callas, American Musician

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"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."

John Barrow, American Politician

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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

Brooks Adams, American Historian

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Explore more quotes by Andy Goldsworthy

"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."

Work, Appearance, Energy, Trying

"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."

Energy,

"I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work."

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"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."

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"It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store."

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"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."

Art, Violence

"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."

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"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."

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"Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose."

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"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."

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