I am being careful not to clutter my life with career administration so I can keep the focus on the acting.
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What are you unwilling to optimise?
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How much rewriting or revision do you do?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
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Most of what I do is just managing feelings, emotions, and thoughts
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Geoffrey Rush
Australian actor
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Richard Mowe, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Eye For Film, 6 July 2022
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Radio astronomer; discoverer of pulsars
It looked like an agricultural frame, something you might grow peas up – a lot of wires and cables strung from posts over a space the size of 57 tennis courts. It was actually built to study radio emission from quasars. I built the prototype and then six of us took two years to build the real thing.
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Louise Walsh, University of Cambridge 'Journeys of Discovery' interview series, 1 January 2020
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Tadao Ando
Architect; Pritzker Prize laureate, 1995
For me, making architecture is the same as thinking. For more than thirty years, I have been making architecture by going back and forth between ideals and reality, between the fictive and the substantive. My hope has been and continues to be, not only to solve realistic problems, but also to pursue the ideal by overlaying speculative imaginings.
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Grand Trianon Palace, Versailles, 22 May 1995, The Hyatt Foundation / The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 22 May 1995
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Twyla Tharp
Choreographer, dancer and author
We thought that there were certain possibilities, in terms of physical movement, in terms of community, and in terms of what dance could address in our society. And those were the issues that we went after. And we worked with a great deal of rigor. Which is to say, we were very, very dedicated. We worked six days a week, we worked at least six hours every day. We did not perform much at all. It was really about the experience of learning and exploring and growing, for five years.
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MOVE was very supportive through all of that. My wife had a natural childbirth — MOVE coached us through a lot of that.
My fear, my anxiety, that I’m grappling with in this film, is that if we’re not able to struggle with the domestic things
I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.
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