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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Savor existence. This is not a practice run.
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The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
Augusto Boal
'The stage is not transformative: it is a practice ground for transformation.'
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Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.
Drake
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The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
Peter Brook
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There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
John Kander
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Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
Judith Malina
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Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.
Ulric Neisser
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Maria Callas
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Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?
Jaco Pastorius
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Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.
Charles Spurgeon
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And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
Milan Kundera
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I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.
Seohyun
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I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.
Charles M. Schulz
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
George S. Kaufman
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At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.
Thomas Beecham
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No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.
Jim Jarmusch
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Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.
Mario Testino
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One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.
Sybille Bedford
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
Damian Lewis
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I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!
Daniel Day-Lewis
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People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.
Jesse Eisenberg
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Let's not hold anything back in 2015. We only have one life to live and this is not a dress rehearsal!! #‎ allornothing
Christine Caine
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During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
Jeanne Moreau
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I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.
Michael Cera
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
John Malkovich
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Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
Geezer Butler
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Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.
Tommy Wiseau
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I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop
Martin Landau
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The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.
Peter J. Daniels
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The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.
Sam Mendes
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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
Harvey Fierstein
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They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.
Buddy Guy
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My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.
Helene Grimaud
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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
Bill Murray
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
Wayne Rogers
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Sometimes the scene is a sad scene but you have to play it with a laugh to find out that that doesn't work or that there's really a part of that in it, and that's what rehearsal is for, to take that time.
William Fichtner
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There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.
Michael Gambon
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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
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The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.
Angela Lansbury
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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.
Milan Kundera
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Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
Gene Tierney
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Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
Paul Simon
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The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.
Jonathan Bennett
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
Brian Eno
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In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.
Christopher Walken