A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It’s important to alternate between the two activities.
I have a shower first thing in the morning and I’ve got an array of products I like to alternate using depending on my mood!
Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in gymnastics.
Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can’t give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we’re constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we’d look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history – not only because it isn’t true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive; it is boring. Good history, on the other hand, demands that one talk socratically – that one can present alternate viewpoints, not strawman arguments.
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