"The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage."
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"Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover."
"Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey."
"It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there."
"For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!"
"Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence."
"When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself."
"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage."
"We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet."
"During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience."
"The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning."
"You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him."
"The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot."
"Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn."
"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."
"The center of the stage is where I am."
"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."
"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
"The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery."
"It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only."