“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve [...]
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Inspirational Quote
Posted in Inspirational, Uncategorized on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Royal Academy of Arts: From Russia
Posted in Inspirational, Reviews on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Royal Academy of Arts: From Russia
I visited the Royal Academy of Arts for research into my character in The Cherry Orchard. They were showing French and Russian Master Paintings from 1870-1925. This is exactly the time when Luybov Ranevskya was both in France and Russia. I learned a lot from the paintings and the audio [...]
Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
Posted in Inspirational, School, tagged Musee des Beaux Arts, Poem, W.H. Auden on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another poem that I liked that we are working on in Voice class.
Musee des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the [...]
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Posted in Inspirational, tagged Mary Oliver, Poem, Wild Geese on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a short little poem that we worked on in Voice class yesterday…
“Wild Geese”
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will [...]
