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"If in America we lowered our ticket prices on Broadway, audiences could make up their own minds and..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:08:46 -0400

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If in America we lowered our ticket prices on Broadway, audiences could make up their own minds and wouldn’t have to rely on the New York Times as the critic to tell us what we think.

I think we have a big problem on Broadway right now where Wall Street has hijacked Broadway. They’re not in it for the love of the theater. I don’t know anybody that goes to Broadway or goes in to theater period to make money. It isn’t a money-making proposition.

There can only be one ‘Wicked’ a decade really but we have a lot of Wall St. fat cats who are money-laundering on Broadway and when they don’t get the reviews they want, they shut the play down. They’re not showmen so they don’t know how to run it or how to bring an audience in.

You have to have the ingenuity to get beyond the reviews if they’re bad. In the old days they would never let a critic tell them their show was a flop. They would find a way to outwit them.

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- Patti LuPone on BBC Radio 2 (via pickleofadilley)

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the-absolute-best-posts: OH MY GOD, i thought she had red...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:05:23 -0400

the-absolute-best-posts:

OH MY GOD, i thought she had red trousers on the dog somehow ripped her body in half.

the-absolute-best-posts: lovequotesrus: EVERYTHING LOVE

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:01:43 -0400

the-absolute-best-posts:

lovequotesrus:

EVERYTHING LOVE

"We can tell our children that school is important until we’re blue in the face, they’re not stupid...."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:58:41 -0400

“We can tell our children that school is important until we’re blue in the face, they’re not stupid. They see the loudest applause is for the kids on the field. They know teachers are paid poorly and don’t drive fancy cars. They know people plan Super Bowl parties but mock the National Spelling Bee. In other words, they see the hypocrisy, and we can’t expect society to correct itself. If we want to have any lasting influence on the way our kids approach education — the way future generations approach education — then we have to grab our pom-poms and paint our faces and celebrate intellectual curiosity with the same vigor we do their athletic achievements.”

- Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd - CNN.com

We also don’t believe in the value of education, culturally — we just like to say we do because as citizens of an industrialized nation, we’re supposed to.

(via chameli)

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-cityoflove: Oxford, England via Darrell Godliman

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:02:21 -0400

-cityoflove:

Oxford, England via Darrell Godliman

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:59:27 -0400

““Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.””

- Mark Twain (via noodlesonmyears)

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believeinkissing: Add all items (including huge window allowing...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:25:42 -0400

believeinkissing:

Add all items (including huge window allowing natural light) to Dream Kitchen list.

vernacular-manslaughter: octospider: Gwendoline Christie is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:23:57 -0400

vernacular-manslaughter:

octospider:

Gwendoline Christie is the actress for Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. She stands at 6 feet 3 inches tall and took swordfighting, horseriding, and stagefighting lessons for her part, as well as gaining 14 pounds of muscle, to accurately portray Brienne. (x)

She was also terrified of cutting her hair because she’d spent her life believing it was one of the only things that would make people see her as feminine despite her height. In an interview with TV Guide she said:

I struggled for a long time with [cutting] my hair, but then I’m grateful for the opportunity to realize that femininity doesn’t have to come from hair or any of those traditional female archetypes of appearance, So, that’s been exciting actually. I can’t speak with any kind of authority whatsoever because I’m just an actor and I only have my opinions, but I do think it’s really refreshing to have a woman depicted on a mainstream TV show that doesn’t obey typical aesthetics of females and the way they have been portrayed in the past. And I’m really excited to be portraying one of those women. And I hope that her popularity signals a greater expansion of people’s views about men and women and that gender types can be more flexible.

meadek: assholedisney: CAN WE JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO APPRECIATE THESE MOTHERFUCKING BOOKS these...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:22:46 -0400

meadek:

assholedisney:

CAN WE JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO APPRECIATE THESE MOTHERFUCKING BOOKS

these fake ass diaries that were SO WELL WRITTEN that your 10-year-old self was about a million percent convinced that someone’s ratty ass diary survived the sinking of the Titanic and became a national best seller

THEY COVERED FUCKIN EVERYTHING

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See: my entire childhood.

"We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From hand-written letters..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:20:17 -0400

“We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From hand-written letters to electronic mails. From film to digital. We were fascinated by new things, neglecting the way we spend our afternoons. Cupcakes and tea. Play-Doh and Polly Pockets. Young and naive. Technology completely changed the way we waited and we grew up too fast. The simple things in life seems more meaningful now. We grew up in the age of transition and have become the generation of nostalgia.”

- this explains the 90s kids (via ladymargaerytyrells)

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dontforgetthewild: I just fell in love. I must have those...

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dontforgetthewild:

I just fell in love. I must have those Hunters.

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"Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:17:16 -0400

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

- Albert Camus, from “Notebooks, 1951-1959” (via thatkindofwoman)

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