I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.
The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.
Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.
As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.
I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.
My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.
Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.
You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage. . . now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.
When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
